Morally Insane, Inverted, Born This Way: Medical Treatments for Lesbianism in Britain, 1830-1950
Heritage Open Day: Gabrielle Storey (University of Winchester) will present a 45 minute paper on her research focusing on the interaction between medicine and sexuality in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This talk will discuss how medical treatments for female sexual inversion, later termed as lesbianism, changed in Britain from 1830 to 1950. From 1830-1890 female sexual inverts were deemed to be morally insane and were admitted to asylums in an attempt to 'cure' them. Betwee
Sat 9 Sep:1200-1300. Free Entry.
Hampshire Archives & Local Studies, Hampshire Record Office, Sussex Street, Winchester SO23 8TH
Sat 9 Sep 2017