Title: Female Sexual Inversion
Subtitle: Same-Sex Desires in Italian and British Sexology, c.1870-1920
Description: 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.
Subjects: HISTORY / Social History, HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, Lesbianism, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain, HISTORY / Europe / Italy, History, queer, queer history, Female Homosexuality, History, 19th Century, History, 20th Century
Places: Great Britain, Italy