Female sexual inversion : same-sex desires in Italian and British sexology, c. 1870-1920.

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, fiamm...

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Main Author: Beccalossi, Chiara
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Series:Genders and sexualities in history.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central