LEADER 05571nam 22009255 450 001 9910789721503321 005 20201103011251.0 010 $a1-283-36072-1 010 $a9786613360724 010 $a0-230-35411-4 024 7 $a10.1057/9780230354111 035 $a(CKB)2670000000127724 035 $a(EBL)815912 035 $a(OCoLC)767503018 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001658256 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16440487 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001658256 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14988167 035 $a(PQKB)11223032 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000550750 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12206345 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000550750 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10509277 035 $a(PQKB)11470230 035 $a(DE-He213)978-0-230-35411-1 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC815912 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000127724 100 $a20151204d2012 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFemale Sexual Inversion$b[electronic resource] $eSame-Sex Desires in Italian and British Sexology, c. 1870-1920 /$fby Chiara Beccalossi 205 $a1st ed. 2012. 210 1$aLondon :$cPalgrave Macmillan UK :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2012. 215 $a1 online resource (319 p.) 225 1 $aGenders and Sexualities in History,$x2730-9479 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-349-31368-8 311 $a0-230-23498-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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 327 $a3 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 327 $aGynaecology: 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 327 $aPsychology 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 330 $aAn examination of how female same-sex desires were represented in a wide range of Italian and British medical writings, 1870-1920. It shows how the psychiatric category of sexual inversion was positioned alongside other medical ideas of same-sex desires, such as the virago, tribade-prostitute, fiamma and gynaecological explanations. 410 0$aGenders and Sexualities in History,$x2730-9479 606 $aItaly?History 606 $aEurope?History 606 $aHistory, Modern 606 $aClinical psychology 606 $aHistory 606 $aSociology 606 $aHistory of Italy$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/717050 606 $aEuropean History$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/717000 606 $aModern History$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/713000 606 $aClinical Psychology$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/Y12005 606 $aHistory of Science$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/731000 606 $aGender Studies$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X35000 615 0$aItaly?History. 615 0$aEurope?History. 615 0$aHistory, Modern. 615 0$aClinical psychology. 615 0$aHistory. 615 0$aSociology. 615 14$aHistory of Italy. 615 24$aEuropean History. 615 24$aModern History. 615 24$aClinical Psychology. 615 24$aHistory of Science. 615 24$aGender Studies. 676 $a306.76 676 $a306.76/630946 686 $aHIS020000$aHIS015000$aHIS037070$aHIS037060$aHIS054000$2bisacsh 700 $aBeccalossi$b Chiara$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01577456 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910789721503321 996 $aFemale Sexual Inversion$93856063 997 $aUNINA