Beccalossi, Chiara (2012) Female sexual inversion: same-sex desires in Italian and British sexology, ca. 1870-1920. Genders and Sexualities in History . Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780230234987
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Item Type: | Book or Monograph |
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Abstract
Between the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries, a number of women were diagnosed as sexual inverts in Britain and Europe. This book examines the ways in which female same-sex desires were represented across a wide range of Italian and British medical writings during this period. Chiara Beccalossi has undertaken extensive archival research to bring to light new documents and give a detailed account of how the female invert was positioned alongside other figures of same-sex desires, such as the tribade-prostitute, the fiamma (flame), the nymphomaniac, and women with abnormal genitalia or bodily dysfunctions. In this way this book shows the richness of medical representations of female same sex-desires that has previously been unexplored in historical scholarship.
Additional Information: | Date published 26 October 2011 |
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Keywords: | Modern European History, History of Medicine, Gender, Sexuality, Italy, Britain, Women, Same-Sex Desires |
Subjects: | V Historical and Philosophical studies > V380 History of Science V Historical and Philosophical studies > V145 Modern History 1900-1919 V Historical and Philosophical studies > V144 Modern History 1800-1899 V Historical and Philosophical studies > V210 British History V Historical and Philosophical studies > V223 Italian History |
Divisions: | College of Arts > School of History & Heritage > School of History & Heritage (History) |
ID Code: | 19029 |
Deposited On: | 15 Oct 2015 18:56 |
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