Author: Chiara Beccalossi

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2011-10-26

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 0230354114

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.