| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
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| Title Information: |
same-sex desires in Italian and British sexology, c.1870-1920 |
| Author: |
BeccalossiChiara, 1976- |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
Palgrave Connect (Online service) |
| Place of Publication: |
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire [U.K.] New York |
| Published: |
Palgrave Macmillan; |
| Year of Publication: |
2012 |
| Description: |
1 online resource (xiv, 304 p.) |
| Series: |
Genders and sexualities in history |
| Subject: |
HISTORY / Europe / Italy - |
| Subject: |
HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain - |
| Subject: |
HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century - |
| Subject: |
HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century - |
| Subject: |
HISTORY / Social History - |
| Subject: |
Lesbianism - History. - Italy - |
| Subject: |
Lesbianism - History. - Great Britain - |
| Subject: |
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Lesbian Studies - |
| Online resource: |
http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230354111 |
| Notes: |
Description based on print version record. |
| Summary: |
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. |
| ISBN: |
9780230354111electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
0230354114electronic bk. |
| Content Note: |
Acknowledgements Note on terminology Abbreviations PART I Introduction: Female Sexual Inversion and other Medical Embodiments of Female Same-Sex Desires in Italy and Britain, circa 1870-1920 Sexuality in Post-Risorgimento Italy and Victorian Britain PART II Italy: The Fashionable Psychiatric Disorder of Sexual Inversion and Other Medical Embodiments of Same-Sex Desires Britain: Oblique Discourses Surrounding 'Lesbic Love' PART III Cesare Lombroso and Italian Criminal Anthropology Pasquale Penta, 'First Class Sexologist' Havelock Ellis and Sex Psychology William Blair-Bell and Gynaecology Concluding Remarks Bibliography Index. |