Female Sexual Inversion

Female Sexual Inversion

Same-Sex Desires in Italian and British Sexology, c.1870-1920

by 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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