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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
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.
Keywords
- sexual deviance
- psychiatry
- mental health
- LGBTQ history
- fascism
- Open Access
- gender and sexuality
Authors and Affiliations
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Independent Scholar, Roma, Italy
Gabriella Romano
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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
License: CC BY
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