Title Female sexual inversion : same-sex desires in Italian and British sexology, c. 1870-1920

Published Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (319 pages) Series Genders and sexualities in history Genders and sexualities in history. 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 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 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 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Lesbianism -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Lesbianism -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century Lesbianism -- Italy -- History -- 19th century Lesbianism -- Italy -- History -- 20th century Homosexuality, Female -- history History, 19th Century History, 20th Century Gender studies: women -- c 1800 to c 1900 -- c 1900 -- c 1914 -- Italy -- United Kingdom, Great Britain. Lesbian studies -- c 1800 to c 1900 -- c 1900 -- c 1914 -- Italy -- United Kingdom, Great Britain. Social & cultural history -- c 1800 to c 1900 -- c 1900 -- c 1914 -- Italy -- United Kingdom, Great Britain. History of medicine -- c 1800 to c 1900 -- c 1900 -- c 1914 -- Italy -- United Kingdom, Great Britain. Psychiatry -- c 1800 to c 1900 -- c 1900 -- c 1914 -- Italy -- United Kingdom, Great Britain. HISTORY -- Europe -- Italy. HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain. HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century. HISTORY -- Modern -- 19th Century. HISTORY -- Social History. Society. Lesbianism Lesbische Orientierung Lesbische Liebe. Sexualwissenschaft. SUBJECT Italy United Kingdom Subject Great Britain Italy Großbritannien Italien Italien. Großbritannien. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780230354111 0230354114 1283360721 9781283360722

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