Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Homosexuality and Influences in Italian Psychiatric Theory under Fascism 2. Italian Psychiatric Theories on Homosexuality 3. Quiet Disobedience: The Rome Asylum, Santa Maria della Pietà 4. Practice and Theory in Conflict: The Florence asylum, San Salvi 5. ‘A Grave for the Living’: The Girifalco Asylum Conclusions Bibliography Index

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The first historical analysis into the repression of homosexuality through psychiatric internment during the fascist regime in Italy.

About the Author

Gabriella Romano is Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London, and an independent documentary filmmaker. Her main area of interest is the history of homosexuality, with a specific focus on the fascist regime years. 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, and of Il Mio Nome è Lucy. Il XX secolo nei ricordi di una transessuale (2009), based on the first interview released by Lucy Salani, MtoF who survived Fascism and deportation to Dachau.