TY  - BOOK
AU  - Romano, Gabriella 
AB  - 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.
DO  - 10.1007/978-3-030-00994-6
ID  - OAPEN ID: 1005551
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1078555909
KW  - Sexual deviance
KW  - psychiatry
KW  - mental health
KW  - LGBTQ history
KW  - fascism
KW  - Open Access
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/7604a11f-07a9-4c66-b265-767d6c122635/1005551.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/24558
PB  - Springer Nature
PP  - Basingstoke
PY  - 2019
SN  - 9783030009946
TI  - The Pathologisation of Homosexuality in Fascist Italynull
ER  - 
