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Intro -- Contents -- Foreword by Emilio Gentile -- Acknowledgments -- Glossary -- Introduction: Against Nature: Masculinity and Homosexuality -- 1. The Making of the Virile Italian -- 2. The Discovery of Homosexuality -- 3. Sodomy: Sin or Crime -- 4. The Repression of Homosexuality -- 5. Madmen or Criminals -- 6. The Political Use of Homosexuality -- 7. Bourgeois Respectability and Fascist Morality -- Notes -- Index.

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