Female Sexual Inversion
Same-Sex Desires in Italian and British Sexology, c. 1870-1920
Chiara Beccalossi
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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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psychiatric disorder, female sex, Britain, Embodiment, psychology, nation