Beccalossi, Chiara (2012) Female same-sex desires: conceptualizing a disease in competing medical fields in nineteenth-century Europe. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 67 (1). 7 -35. ISSN 0022-5045
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Abstract
This article examines the ways in which female same-sex desires were represented across a range of nineteenth-century European medical writings. While recognizing the conceptual innovations of the late-nineteenth-century psychiatric idea of “sexual inversion,” it argues that the category of “sexual invert” was positioned alongside other medical representations of same-sex desires, such as gynecological descrip- tions of women with hypertrophy of the clitoris and socio-cultural analy- ses of the tribade-prostitute. These representations complicate current historical accounts of sexual inversion, which emphasize conceptual rup- tures within the history of medicine.
Keywords: | Modern European History, Sexology, female homosexuality, medicine, bmjconvert | ||||
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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 > V220 European History V Historical and Philosophical studies > V144 Modern History 1800-1899 | ||||
Divisions: | College of Arts > School of History & Heritage > School of History & Heritage (History) | ||||
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ID Code: | 19039 | ||||
Deposited On: | 15 Oct 2015 19:42 |
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