The enemy of the new man : homosexuality in fascist Italy / Lorenzo Benadusi ; translated by Suzanne Dingee and Jennifer Pudney.

Author: Benadusi, Lorenzo, 1973-

Imprint:Madison : The University of Wisconsin Press, c2012.

Descriptionxxi, 432 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Note:Originally published as Il nemico dell'uomo nuovo: L'omosessualità nell'esperimento totalitario fascista. Milano : Feltrinelli, 2005.

Note:Foreword by Emilio Gentile -- Introduction : against nature : masculinity and homosexuality -- The making of the virile Italian -- The discovery of homosexuality -- Sodomy : sin or crime -- The repression of homosexuality -- Madmen or criminals -- The political use of homosexuality -- Bourgeois respectability and fascist morality.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-405) and index.

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