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Abstract
This chapter focuses on the under-researched topic of female homosexuality in late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century Italy. She analyses discourses of female same-sex desire first in medical publications—in the work of Cesare Lombroso, Guglielmo Cantarano and Paolo Mantegazza—and then in three novels: Alfredo Oriani’s Al di là [Beyond] (1877), Enrico Butti’s L’automa [The Automaton] (1892), and Fede’s L’eredità di Saffo [Sappho’s Legacy] [1908]. Discussion is informed by the theoretical work of Michel Foucault and Eve Sedgwick, and pays particular attention to the multiple, and often contradictory, connotations of such discourses as they migrate between genres and disciplines, troubling the heteronormative matrix.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Italian Sexualities Uncovered, 1789-1914 |
Editors | Valeria Babini, Chiara Beccalossi, Lucy Riall |
Place of Publication | Basingstoke |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Pages | 228-48 |
Number of pages | 20 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781137396976 |
Publication status | Published - 2015 |
Publication series
Name | Genders and Sexualities in History |
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Publisher | Palgrave |
Keywords
- Italy
- sexology
- female same-sex desire
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Arts and Humanities(all)
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Eccentricity and Sameness: Lesbian Cultural Identity in Italy, 1883 to the present day.
Arts and Humanities Research Council
1/01/12 → 31/05/12
Project: Research Councils