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Female Sexual Inversion: Same-Sex Desires in Italian and British Sexology, c. 1870-1920 (Genders and Sexualities in History) - Softcover

Book 8 of 64: Genders and Sexualities in History

Beccalossi, Chiara

 
9781349313686: Female Sexual Inversion: Same-Sex Desires in Italian and British Sexology, c. 1870-1920 (Genders and Sexualities in History)

Synopsis

An examination of how female same-sex desires were represented in a wide range of Italian and British medical writings, 1870-1920. It shows how the psychiatric category of sexual inversion was positioned alongside other medical ideas of same-sex desires, such as the virago, tribade-prostitute, fiamma and gynaecological explanations.

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About the Author

CHIARA BECCALOSSI is a Lecturer in the History of Medicine at Oxford Brookes University. She has published a number of articles on the history of sexuality and history of medicine, and is the co-editor of A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Age of Empire (2011) with Ivan Crozier.

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