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

by Chiara Beccalossi

Book Overview

Acknowledgements Note on terminology Abbreviations PART I Introduction: Female Sexual Inversion and other Medical Embodiments of Female Same-Sex Desires in Italy and Britain, circa 1870-1920 Sexuality in Post-Risorgimento Italy and Victorian Britain PART II Italy: The Fashionable Psychiatric Disorder of Sexual Inversion and Other Medical Embodiments of Same-Sex Desires Britain: Oblique Discourses Surrounding 'Lesbic Love' PART III Cesare Lombroso...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349313688
• ISBN13: 9781349313686
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"