Overview
- Demonstrates how psychiatry was used as a tool of repression and persecution of homosexuality in fascist Italy
- Explores the connections between families, the police and the medical professionals in implementing this form of repression
- Utilises archival material that have never been used in historical research before
Part of the book series: Genders and Sexualities in History (GSX)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
The book highlights how the dictatorship operated in a low-key, shadowy and undetectable manner, bending pre-existing legislation. Its brutality was - and still is - difficult to prove. It also emphasises the ways in which existing stereotypes on homosexuality were reinforced by the regime propaganda in support of its so-called moralising campaign and how families, the police and the medical professionals joined forces in implementing this form of repression.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Pathologisation of Homosexuality in Fascist Italy
Book Subtitle: The Case of 'G'
Authors: Gabriella Romano
Series Title: Genders and Sexualities in History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00994-6
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-00993-9Published: 13 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-00994-6Published: 29 November 2018
Series ISSN: 2730-9479
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9487
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 110
Number of Illustrations: 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: History of Italy, Cultural History, Gender and Sexuality, History of Science, Social History