1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990001041470403321

Autore

Olson, Richard

Titolo

Scottish Philosophy and British Physics 1750-1880 : a Study in the Foundations of the Victorian Scientific Style / Richard Olson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton [N.J.] : Princeton University Press, 1975

Descrizione fisica

vii, 349 p. ; 22 cm

Disciplina

509

Locazione

FI1

Collocazione

6D-178

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA990000986140403321

Autore

Duhring, E.

Titolo

Robert Mayer der galilei des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts : Eine Einfuhrung in seine Leistungen und Schicksale / von R. Duhring

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chemnitz : Verlag von Ernst Schmeitzner, 1880

Descrizione fisica

VIII, 227 p. ; 22 cm

Disciplina

509

Locazione

FI1

Collocazione

6D-143

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

D.F.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910961133803321

Autore

Beccalossi Chiara <1976->

Titolo

Female Sexual Inversion : Same-Sex Desires in Italian and British Sexology, c. 1870-1920 / / by Chiara Beccalossi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2012

ISBN

9786613360724

9781283360722

1283360721

9780230354111

0230354114

Edizione

[1st ed. 2012.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (319 p.)

Collana

Genders and Sexualities in History, , 2730-9487

Classificazione

HIS020000HIS015000HIS037070HIS037060HIS054000

Disciplina

306.76/630946

Soggetti

Italy - History

Europe - History

History, Modern

Clinical psychology

Science - History

Sex

History of Italy

European History

Modern History

Clinical Psychology

History of Science

Gender Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.