Female Sexual Inversion: Same-Sex Desires in Italian and British Sexology, c.1870-1920

by Chiara Beccalossi

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230234984
• ISBN13: 9780230234987
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.5"