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1 online resource (319 pages) |
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Genders and sexualities in history |
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Genders and sexualities in history.
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Contents |
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Note on Terminology; Abbreviations; Part I; 1 Introduction: Female Sexual Inversion and other Medical Embodiments of Female Same-Sex Desires in Italy and Britain, circa 1870-1920; The emergence of the medical category of sexual inversion: continuities and variations; National traditions and competing medical fields; The hero/villain dichotomy; The (in)visibility of female same-sex desires; 2 Sexuality in Post-Risorgimento Italy and Victorian Britain Historical contexts; Historical contexts; Regularisation of sexual behaviours; Part II |
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3 Italy: The Fashionable Psychiatric Disorder of Sexual Inversion and other Medical Embodiments of Same-Sex DesiresTowards an Italian psychiatry; 'Inversion of sexual instinct': towards a new and fashionable psychiatric pathology; The establishment of sexual inversion as a mental illness in psychiatric manuals; Asylums as laboratories for tracking female homosexuality; Figures of female same-sex desires; 4 Britain: Oblique Discourses Surrounding 'Lesbic Love'; British psychiatry in the nineteenth century; Psychiatry and same-sex desires; Female sexual excess: nymphomania and prostitution |
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Gynaecology: sexual excess in the female bodyYoung females do not sleep in the same bed: masturbation and adolescence; Part III Case-Studies; 5 Cesare Lombroso and Italian Criminal Anthropology; The Criminal Man, pederasty, and sexual inversion; Popularising sexology; Tribadism; Stigmatising feminism?; 6 Pasquale Penta, 'First Class Sexologist'; Following Lombroso's path: the Verzeni case; Archivio delle psicopatie sessuali; 'Natura non facit saltus': pursuing the study of sexuality; Female sexual inversion; 7 Havelock Ellis and Sex Psychology; Writing Sexual Inversion; The Bedborough case |
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Psychology of sex: female sexual inversion8 William Blair-Bell and Gynaecology; The normal woman and her internal secretions; The abnormal woman type; 9 Concluding Remarks; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Summary |
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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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Lesbianism -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
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Lesbianism -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
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Lesbianism -- Italy -- History -- 19th century
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Lesbianism -- Italy -- History -- 20th century
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Homosexuality, Female -- history
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History, 19th Century
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History, 20th Century
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Gender studies: women -- c 1800 to c 1900 -- c 1900 -- c 1914 -- Italy -- United Kingdom, Great Britain.
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Lesbian studies -- c 1800 to c 1900 -- c 1900 -- c 1914 -- Italy -- United Kingdom, Great Britain.
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Social & cultural history -- c 1800 to c 1900 -- c 1900 -- c 1914 -- Italy -- United Kingdom, Great Britain.
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History of medicine -- c 1800 to c 1900 -- c 1900 -- c 1914 -- Italy -- United Kingdom, Great Britain.
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Psychiatry -- c 1800 to c 1900 -- c 1900 -- c 1914 -- Italy -- United Kingdom, Great Britain.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Italy.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain.
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HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century.
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HISTORY -- Modern -- 19th Century.
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HISTORY -- Social History.
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Society.
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Lesbianism
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Lesbische Orientierung
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Lesbische Liebe.
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Sexualwissenschaft.
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Italy |
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United Kingdom |
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Great Britain
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Italy
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Großbritannien
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Italien
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Italien.
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Großbritannien.
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780230354111 |
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0230354114 |
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1283360721 |
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9781283360722 |
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