05238nam 22010095 450 991096113380332120240312123914.09786613360724978128336072212833607219780230354111023035411410.1057/9780230354111(CKB)2670000000127724(EBL)815912(OCoLC)767503018(SSID)ssj0001658256(PQKBManifestationID)16440487(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001658256(PQKBWorkID)14988167(PQKB)11223032(SSID)ssj0000550750(PQKBManifestationID)12206345(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000550750(PQKBWorkID)10509277(PQKB)11470230(DE-He213)978-0-230-35411-1(MiAaPQ)EBC815912(Perlego)3504413(EXLCZ)99267000000012772420151204d2012 u| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrFemale Sexual Inversion Same-Sex Desires in Italian and British Sexology, c. 1870-1920 /by Chiara Beccalossi1st ed. 2012.London :Palgrave Macmillan UK :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2012.1 online resource (319 p.)Genders and Sexualities in History,2730-9487Description based upon print version of record.9781349313686 1349313688 9780230234987 0230234984 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 II3 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 prostitutionGynaecology: 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 casePsychology 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; IndexAn 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.Genders and Sexualities in History,2730-9487ItalyHistoryEuropeHistoryHistory, ModernClinical psychologyScienceHistorySexHistory of ItalyEuropean HistoryModern HistoryClinical PsychologyHistory of ScienceGender StudiesItalyHistory.EuropeHistory.History, Modern.Clinical psychology.ScienceHistory.Sex.History of Italy.European History.Modern History.Clinical Psychology.History of Science.Gender Studies.306.76/630946HIS020000HIS015000HIS037070HIS037060HIS054000bisacshBeccalossi Chiara1976-1794011MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910961133803321Female Sexual Inversion4334532UNINA