This book provides a historical analysis of one of Sigmund Freud's least-studied cases, published in 1920 as The Psychogenesis of a Case of Homosexuality in a Woman.

Michal Shapira, PhD, is Associate Professor in the History Department at Tel Aviv University, Israel. She previously taught at Barnard College, Columbia University and Amherst College.

Introduction Part I: Freud, the Medical Discourse and Female Homosexuality Part II: Margarethe Csonka/Sidonie Csillag (1900-1999): An Assimilated Jewish Female Homosexual in Modern Vienna Conclusion