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The Origin of Italian Sexological Studies: Female Sexual Inversion, ca. 1870–1900

Year: 2008

Type: article

Abstract: Before the term “sexual inversion” entered the vocabulary of the Italian medical community with the forensic physician Arrigo Tamassia’s case history of a male sexual invert in 1878, there already existed notions of female same-sex desires. These ideas linked female homosexuality to excessive sexual longing, virility, and specific women-only environments. This framework of understanding returned in later studies of female “sexual inversion,” but it assumed a more sophisticated conceptual form. The aim of this article is to map the debates around female same-sex desires that took place as Italian sexology developed by the end of the nineteenth century.

Source: Journal of the History of Sexuality

DOI: 10.1353/sex.0.0030

Author: Chiara Beccalossi

Language: English

Topic: Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes

Subfield: History

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Gender equality

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W1827960895

FWCI: 35.44

Cites: 12

Cited by: 12

Related to: 10