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No. 297 (2021): Italia Contemporanea - Sezione Open Access "In rete"

Lgbtq+ histories, visions, memories. A discussion of three books on Italian contemporary history

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.3280/ic297-oa4
Submitted
gennaio 28, 2022
Published
2022-01-31

Abstract

This article discusses three recent books published in Itlay on Lgbtq+ history, namely Il caso di G. La patologizzazione dell’omosessualità nell’Italia fascista, by Gabriella Romano; Omosessualità e cinema italiano. Dalla caduta del fascismo agli anni di piombo, by Mauro Giori; and L’aurora delle trans cattive. Storie, sguardi e vissuti della mia generazione transgender, by Porpora Marcasciano. In analyzing these books, the author raises a series of historiographical questions, discusses different methodological approaches, and opens up several trajectories for Lgbtq+ Italian historiography, placing these issues in a larger
international debate.

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