Publication Date:
2024-03-23
Description:
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.
Keywords:
Sexual deviance
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psychiatry
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mental health
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LGBTQ history
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fascism
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Open Access
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thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe::1DS Southern Europe::1DST Italy
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thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences
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thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology
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thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology::JHBK Sociology: family and relationships
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thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology::JMH Social, group or collective psychology
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thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPF Political ideologies and movements::JPFQ Far-right political ideologies and movements
Language:
English
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