| Female Same-sex Desires: Conceptualizing a Disease in Competing Medical Fields in Nineteenth-century Europe. | |
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PMID: 21330299 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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This article examines the ways in which female same-sex desires were represented across a range of nineteenth-century European medical writings. While recognizing the conceptual innovations of the late-nineteenth-century psychiatric idea of "sexual inversion," it argues that the category of "sexual invert" was positioned alongside other medical representations of same-sex desires, such as gynecological descriptions of women with hypertrophy of the clitoris and socio-cultural analyses of the tribade-prostitute. These representations complicate current historical accounts of sexual inversion, which emphasize conceptual ruptures within the history of medicine. |
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Chiara Beccalossi |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2011-2-16 |
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Title: Journal of the history of medicine and allied sciences Volume: - ISSN: 1468-4373 ISO Abbreviation: - Publication Date: 2011 Feb |
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Created Date: 2011-2-18 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 0413415 Medline TA: J Hist Med Allied Sci Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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Centre for the History of European Discourses, University of Queensland, Forgan-Smith Building, Level 5, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia. |
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