Female Sexual Inversion : Same-Sex Desires in Italian and British Sexology, c. 1870-1920 PDF
by Chiara Beccalossi
Part of the Genders and Sexualities in History series
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Between the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries, a number of women were diagnosed as sexual inverts in Britain and Europe.
This book examines the ways in which female same-sex desires were represented across a wide range of Italian and British medical writings during this period.
Chiara Beccalossi has undertaken extensive archival research to bring to light new documents and give a detailed account of how the female invert was positioned alongside other figures of same-sex desires, such as the tribade-prostitute, the fiamma (flame), the nymphomaniac, and women with abnormal genitalia or bodily dysfunctions.
In this way this book shows the richness of medical representations of female same sex-desires that has previously been unexplored in historical scholarship.
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- Format:PDF
- Pages:320 pages
- Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:26/10/2011
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- ISBN:9780230354111
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- Format:PDF
- Pages:320 pages
- Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:26/10/2011
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- ISBN:9780230354111
