Chiara Beccalossi
Biographic Data
| ID | 535285 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chiara Beccalossi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chiara |
| FAMILY NAME | Beccalossi |
| SIGNATURE | BECCALOSSI C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Lincoln |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3398-1410 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Sexology and development
The history of sexology is a well-established field of scholarly investigation animated by ongoing contestations around the disciplinary boundaries, political outlook, and transnational dimensions of the sexological field. This special issue focuses on the multivalent concept of development to address some of the most pressing questions driving current historiographical conversations in this area. The five articles examine how sexology developed …
Sexology, sexual development, and hormone treatments in Southern Europe and Latin America, c.1920–40
Displacing the physiological model that had held sway in 19th-century medical thinking, early 20th-century medical scientists working on hormones promoted a new understanding of the body, psychological reactions, and the sexual instinct, arguing that each were fundamentally malleable. Hormones came to be understood as the chemical messengers that regulated an individual's growth and sexual development, and sexologists interested in this area focu…
La sessualità e i generi
Types, norms, and normalisation
Displacing the physiological model that had held sway in 19th-century medical thinking, early 20th-century hormone research promoted an understanding of the body and sexual desires in which variations in sex characteristics and non-reproductive sexual behaviours such as homosexuality were attributed to anomalies in the internal secretions produced by the testes or the ovaries. Biotypology, a new brand of medical science conceived and led by the I…
Normality
In contemporary Western culture the term “normal” is an everyday word, the meaning of which is so obvious to one and all that it does not need be defined. It does not matter whether we think of the category of normality as a positive state or a set of oppressive social standards; we all know what normal means when we go to the doctor and they say that, for example, the level of haemoglobin in our blood test is normal, or when a psychologist says …
Optimizing and normalizing the population through hormone therapies in Italian science, c. 1926–1950
This essay explores how hormone treatments were used to optimize and normalize individuals under Italian Fascism. It does so by taking the activities of the Biotypological Orthogenetic Institute − an Italian eugenics and endocrinological centre founded by Nicola Pende in 1926 − as the prime example of a version of eugenics, biotypology, which was based on hormone therapies. This essay first demonstrates that Italian Fascist biopolitics was not on…
Italian Sexualities Uncovered, 1789–1914
Bringing together an interdisciplinary group of scholars, this volume explores nineteenth-century Italian sexualities from a variety of viewpoints, illuminating in particular personal and political re
The â Italian Viceâ
The ‘Italian Vice’
In the nineteenth century Southern Italy attracted British men who loved individuals of the same sex; in their eyes the Mediterranean promised a more ‘natural’ sexuality, one untrammelled by Northern European civilisation. Little different from people inhabiting the East, Italians were, it was supposed, sensual, exotic, closer to nature, spontaneous, and able to act upon their homoerotic desires. This contribution explores the British stereotypes…
Italian Sexualities Uncovered, 1789-1914
Madness and Sexual Psychopathies as the Magnifying Glass of the Normal
By focusing on Italian psychiatric debates about sexual inversion this article shows how Italian psychiatrists came to argue that there was no clear-cut boundary between normal sexual behaviour and sexual perversion, and traces the debates and fields of knowledge that contributed to the development of such a position. First, it shows how French psychiatry shaped Italian views on sexual psychopathies. Second, it demonstrates that in Italy, psychia…
Female Same-sex Desires
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 th…
Recent Developments in the Intellectual History of Medicine
The history of medicine is probably best thought of as a wide range of different types of inquiry, rather than a single, well-defined field. It can involve, among other things, the history of institutions, technologies, and outstanding individuals. The articles gathered in this special issue are offered specifically as contributions to the intellectual history of medicine. Each shows, in its own way, how a particular disorder became conceptualize…
A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Age of Empire
The 19th Century saw intense urbanization, the development of a consumer culture, the formalization of gender roles, the solidification of class structures, and various encounters with the exotic customs of the colonies – all of which contributed to enhance sexual anxiety among the middle classes. In response, new social conventions, sanitary prescriptions, practices of self-control, and policies of sex regulation and education were developed as …
Nineteenth-century European psychiatry on same-sex desires
By interrogating the intellectual foundations of the normal and pathological within nineteenth-century European psychiatry, this article illustrates the extent to which same-sex desires were located on the borderline between the normal and the pathological. First, this article analyses the early-nineteenth-century French and British medical concepts of folie raisonnante, monomania and moral insanity, and their relationship with medical ideas of s…
Sexual Inversion
In April 1897, Havelock Ellis published Sexual Inversion, the first English medical textbook on the subject of homosexuality, which he had co-authored with the late John Addington Symonds. This was the result of at least four years of research ranging from anthropology to psychiatry, approximately one year of collaboration with Symonds (from June 1892 to April 1893), and Ellis's and Symonds's ability to mobilise a network of friends in order to c…
Types, norms, and normalisation
Displacing the physiological model that had held sway in 19th-century medical thinking, early 20th-century hormone research promoted an understanding of the body and sexual desires in which variations in sex characteristics and non-reproductive sexual behaviours such as homosexuality were attributed to anomalies in the internal secretions produced by the testes or the ovaries. Biotypology, a new brand of medical science conceived and led by the I…
Sexual Inversion
In April 1897, Havelock Ellis published Sexual Inversion, the first English medical textbook on the subject of homosexuality, which he had co-authored with the late John Addington Symonds. This was the result of at least four years of research ranging from anthropology to psychiatry, approximately one year of collaboration with Symonds (from June 1892 to April 1893), and Ellis's and Symonds's ability to mobilise a network of friends in order to c…
Sexology and development
The history of sexology is a well-established field of scholarly investigation animated by ongoing contestations around the disciplinary boundaries, political outlook, and transnational dimensions of the sexological field. This special issue focuses on the multivalent concept of development to address some of the most pressing questions driving current historiographical conversations in this area. The five articles examine how sexology developed …
Sexology, sexual development, and hormone treatments in Southern Europe and Latin America, c.1920–40
Displacing the physiological model that had held sway in 19th-century medical thinking, early 20th-century medical scientists working on hormones promoted a new understanding of the body, psychological reactions, and the sexual instinct, arguing that each were fundamentally malleable. Hormones came to be understood as the chemical messengers that regulated an individual's growth and sexual development, and sexologists interested in this area focu…
Optimizing and normalizing the population through hormone therapies in Italian science, c. 1926–1950
This essay explores how hormone treatments were used to optimize and normalize individuals under Italian Fascism. It does so by taking the activities of the Biotypological Orthogenetic Institute − an Italian eugenics and endocrinological centre founded by Nicola Pende in 1926 − as the prime example of a version of eugenics, biotypology, which was based on hormone therapies. This essay first demonstrates that Italian Fascist biopolitics was not on…
Madness and Sexual Psychopathies as the Magnifying Glass of the Normal
By focusing on Italian psychiatric debates about sexual inversion this article shows how Italian psychiatrists came to argue that there was no clear-cut boundary between normal sexual behaviour and sexual perversion, and traces the debates and fields of knowledge that contributed to the development of such a position. First, it shows how French psychiatry shaped Italian views on sexual psychopathies. Second, it demonstrates that in Italy, psychia…
Nineteenth-century European psychiatry on same-sex desires
By interrogating the intellectual foundations of the normal and pathological within nineteenth-century European psychiatry, this article illustrates the extent to which same-sex desires were located on the borderline between the normal and the pathological. First, this article analyses the early-nineteenth-century French and British medical concepts of folie raisonnante, monomania and moral insanity, and their relationship with medical ideas of s…
Sexual Inversion
In April 1897, Havelock Ellis published Sexual Inversion, the first English medical textbook on the subject of homosexuality, which he had co-authored with the late John Addington Symonds. This was the result of at least four years of research ranging from anthropology to psychiatry, approximately one year of collaboration with Symonds (from June 1892 to April 1893), and Ellis's and Symonds's ability to mobilise a network of friends in order to c…
Nineteenth-century European psychiatry on same-sex desires
By interrogating the intellectual foundations of the normal and pathological within nineteenth-century European psychiatry, this article illustrates the extent to which same-sex desires were located on the borderline between the normal and the pathological. First, this article analyses the early-nineteenth-century French and British medical concepts of folie raisonnante, monomania and moral insanity, and their relationship with medical ideas of s…
A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Age of Empire
The 19th Century saw intense urbanization, the development of a consumer culture, the formalization of gender roles, the solidification of class structures, and various encounters with the exotic customs of the colonies – all of which contributed to enhance sexual anxiety among the middle classes. In response, new social conventions, sanitary prescriptions, practices of self-control, and policies of sex regulation and education were developed as …
Female Same-sex Desires
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 th…
Recent Developments in the Intellectual History of Medicine
The history of medicine is probably best thought of as a wide range of different types of inquiry, rather than a single, well-defined field. It can involve, among other things, the history of institutions, technologies, and outstanding individuals. The articles gathered in this special issue are offered specifically as contributions to the intellectual history of medicine. Each shows, in its own way, how a particular disorder became conceptualize…
Madness and Sexual Psychopathies as the Magnifying Glass of the Normal
By focusing on Italian psychiatric debates about sexual inversion this article shows how Italian psychiatrists came to argue that there was no clear-cut boundary between normal sexual behaviour and sexual perversion, and traces the debates and fields of knowledge that contributed to the development of such a position. First, it shows how French psychiatry shaped Italian views on sexual psychopathies. Second, it demonstrates that in Italy, psychia…
Italian Sexualities Uncovered, 1789–1914
Bringing together an interdisciplinary group of scholars, this volume explores nineteenth-century Italian sexualities from a variety of viewpoints, illuminating in particular personal and political re
The â Italian Viceâ
The ‘Italian Vice’
In the nineteenth century Southern Italy attracted British men who loved individuals of the same sex; in their eyes the Mediterranean promised a more ‘natural’ sexuality, one untrammelled by Northern European civilisation. Little different from people inhabiting the East, Italians were, it was supposed, sensual, exotic, closer to nature, spontaneous, and able to act upon their homoerotic desires. This contribution explores the British stereotypes…
Italian Sexualities Uncovered, 1789-1914
Types, norms, and normalisation
Displacing the physiological model that had held sway in 19th-century medical thinking, early 20th-century hormone research promoted an understanding of the body and sexual desires in which variations in sex characteristics and non-reproductive sexual behaviours such as homosexuality were attributed to anomalies in the internal secretions produced by the testes or the ovaries. Biotypology, a new brand of medical science conceived and led by the I…
Normality
In contemporary Western culture the term “normal” is an everyday word, the meaning of which is so obvious to one and all that it does not need be defined. It does not matter whether we think of the category of normality as a positive state or a set of oppressive social standards; we all know what normal means when we go to the doctor and they say that, for example, the level of haemoglobin in our blood test is normal, or when a psychologist says …
Optimizing and normalizing the population through hormone therapies in Italian science, c. 1926–1950
This essay explores how hormone treatments were used to optimize and normalize individuals under Italian Fascism. It does so by taking the activities of the Biotypological Orthogenetic Institute − an Italian eugenics and endocrinological centre founded by Nicola Pende in 1926 − as the prime example of a version of eugenics, biotypology, which was based on hormone therapies. This essay first demonstrates that Italian Fascist biopolitics was not on…
Sexology and development
The history of sexology is a well-established field of scholarly investigation animated by ongoing contestations around the disciplinary boundaries, political outlook, and transnational dimensions of the sexological field. This special issue focuses on the multivalent concept of development to address some of the most pressing questions driving current historiographical conversations in this area. The five articles examine how sexology developed …
Sexology, sexual development, and hormone treatments in Southern Europe and Latin America, c.1920–40
Displacing the physiological model that had held sway in 19th-century medical thinking, early 20th-century medical scientists working on hormones promoted a new understanding of the body, psychological reactions, and the sexual instinct, arguing that each were fundamentally malleable. Hormones came to be understood as the chemical messengers that regulated an individual's growth and sexual development, and sexologists interested in this area focu…
La sessualità e i generi
Sociology (11 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (10 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · History (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies (5 works)