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Female Sexual Inversion [[electronic resource] ] : Same-Sex Desires in Italian and British Sexology, c. 1870-1920 / / by Chiara Beccalossi
| Female Sexual Inversion [[electronic resource] ] : Same-Sex Desires in Italian and British Sexology, c. 1870-1920 / / by Chiara Beccalossi |
| Autore | Beccalossi Chiara |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2012.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (319 p.) |
| Disciplina |
306.76
306.76/630946 |
| Collana | Genders and Sexualities in History |
| Soggetto topico |
Italy—History
Europe—History History, Modern Clinical psychology History Sociology History of Italy European History Modern History Clinical Psychology History of Science Gender Studies |
| ISBN |
1-283-36072-1
9786613360724 0-230-35411-4 |
| Classificazione | HIS020000HIS015000HIS037070HIS037060HIS054000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910789721503321 |
Beccalossi Chiara
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| London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2012 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Female Sexual Inversion : Same-Sex Desires in Italian and British Sexology, c. 1870-1920 / / by Chiara Beccalossi
| Female Sexual Inversion : Same-Sex Desires in Italian and British Sexology, c. 1870-1920 / / by Chiara Beccalossi |
| Autore | Beccalossi Chiara <1976-> |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2012.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (319 p.) |
| Disciplina | 306.76/630946 |
| Collana | Genders and Sexualities in History |
| Soggetto topico |
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 |
| ISBN |
9786613360724
9781283360722 1283360721 9780230354111 0230354114 |
| Classificazione | HIS020000HIS015000HIS037070HIS037060HIS054000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910961133803321 |
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Beccalossi Chiara <1976->
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| London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2012 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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