Gabriella Romano

Italian Fascism's Forgotten LGBT Victims (eBook, ePUB)

Asylums and Internment, 1922 - 1943

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the question of the repression of LGBT people through psychiatry during the fascist regime in Italy, a subject that has not been investigated until now. It draws together the substantial archival record of patients, doctors and fascist authorities to reconstruct intricate behind-the-scenes dialogue, and to document one of the ways in which the regime repressed LGBT lives in this period.

Italian Fascism's Forgotten LGBT Victims focusses on three different psychiatric hospitals in three parts of the country - Rome, Florence and the small Calabrian town of Girifalco, which had different attitudes and therapeutic approaches. Archive research results are contextualised within the psychiatric theory of the time, highlighting the existing discrepancies between theory and daily routine practice of mental health institutions in Italy during the regime.

Using a variety of sources, Gabriella Romano expands current knowledge of the history of Italian psychiatry, and, in doing so, she also touches a number of crucial issues of medical history, history of Fascism and queer history. Most importantly, this original and well-documented study sheds light on the life stories of ordinary LGBT individuals and their families under the fascist regime, a topic that is still mostly unexplored.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350377110
• Artikelnr.: 69744388

Autorenporträt

Gabriella Romano is an Independent Scholar based in the UK. She is the author of The Pathologisation of Homosexuality in Fascist Italy. The Case of G. (2019), which was also published the same year in Italian.