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Autore |
Beccalossi Chiara |
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Titolo |
Female Sexual Inversion [[electronic resource] ] : Same-Sex Desires in Italian and British Sexology, c. 1870-1920 / / by Chiara Beccalossi |
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London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2012 |
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1-283-36072-1 |
9786613360724 |
0-230-35411-4 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed. 2012.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (319 p.) |
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Collana |
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Genders and Sexualities in History, , 2730-9479 |
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HIS020000HIS015000HIS037070HIS037060HIS054000 |
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Disciplina |
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Italy—History |
Europe—History |
History, Modern |
Clinical psychology |
History |
Sociology |
History of Italy |
European History |
Modern History |
Clinical Psychology |
History of Science |
Gender Studies |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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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