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oapen-20.500.12657-245582022-04-26T11:15:17Z The Pathologisation of Homosexuality in Fascist Italy Romano, Gabriella Sexual deviance psychiatry mental health LGBTQ history fascism Open Access bic Book Industry Communication::1 Geographical Qualifiers::1D Europe::1DS Southern Europe::1DST Italy bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHB Sociology::JHBK Sociology: family & relationships bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JM Psychology::JMH Social, group or collective psychology bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government::JPF Political ideologies::JPFQ Fascism & Nazism This open access book investigates the pathologisation of homosexuality during the fascist regime in Italy through an analysis of the case of G., a man with "homosexual tendencies" interned in the Collegno mental health hospital in 1928. No systematic study exists on the possibility that Fascism used internment in an asylum as a tool of repression for LGBT people, as an alternative to confinement on an island, prison or home arrests. This research offers evidence that in some cases it did. 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. 2019-10-19 23:55 2020-03-18 13:36:15 2020-04-01T10:00:19Z 2020-04-01T10:00:19Z 2019 book 1005551 OCN: 1078555909 9783030009946 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/24558 eng application/pdf Attribution 4.0 International 1005551.pdf https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030009939?wt_mc=ThirdParty.SpringerLink.3.EPR653.About_eBook#otherversion=9783030009946 Springer Nature Palgrave Macmillan 10.1007/978-3-030-00994-6 10.1007/978-3-030-00994-6 6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5 9783030009946 Palgrave Macmillan Basingstoke open access
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This open access book investigates the pathologisation of homosexuality during the fascist regime in Italy through an analysis of the case of G., a man with "homosexual tendencies" interned in the Collegno mental health hospital in 1928. No systematic study exists on the possibility that Fascism used internment in an asylum as a tool of repression for LGBT people, as an alternative to confinement on an island, prison or home arrests. This research offers evidence that in some cases it did. 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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