La «chiave dell’enigma»? Variabilità sessuale e narrazioni depatologizzanti nell’antropologia di Paolo Mantegazza
This article deals with the contribution of Paolo Mantegazza’s anthropology to the emergence of sexual science during the nineteenth century. First, it shows the continuities and discontinuities between the medical-psychiatric strand in the study of human sexuality and Mantegazza’s anthropological m...
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| description | This article deals with the contribution of Paolo Mantegazza’s anthropology to the emergence of sexual science during the nineteenth century. First, it shows the continuities and discontinuities between the medical-psychiatric strand in the study of human sexuality and Mantegazza’s anthropological method. Second, it argues that by combining a blurred view of the boundaries between healthy and pathological with the study of the variability of global sexual behaviours, Mantegazza spread narratives that embodied depathologising discourses towards homosexual desires. Finally, it demonstrates that some of the protagonists of the so-called anthropological turn of the early-twentieth-century sexual science took up his arguments and used them to advocate for a depathologisation of homosexuality. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a66014c89f5545f6ad4de24688a6ead72022-12-22T02:47:18ZengDiacronieDiacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea2038-09252021-10-01133122La «chiave dell’enigma»? Variabilità sessuale e narrazioni depatologizzanti nell’antropologia di Paolo MantegazzaFrancesca CAMPANIThis article deals with the contribution of Paolo Mantegazza’s anthropology to the emergence of sexual science during the nineteenth century. First, it shows the continuities and discontinuities between the medical-psychiatric strand in the study of human sexuality and Mantegazza’s anthropological method. Second, it argues that by combining a blurred view of the boundaries between healthy and pathological with the study of the variability of global sexual behaviours, Mantegazza spread narratives that embodied depathologising discourses towards homosexual desires. Finally, it demonstrates that some of the protagonists of the so-called anthropological turn of the early-twentieth-century sexual science took up his arguments and used them to advocate for a depathologisation of homosexuality.http://www.studistorici.com/2021/10/29/campani_numero_47/anthropologyhomosexualitypaolo mantegazzapsychiatrysexual science |
| spellingShingle | Francesca CAMPANI La «chiave dell’enigma»? Variabilità sessuale e narrazioni depatologizzanti nell’antropologia di Paolo Mantegazza Diacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea anthropology homosexuality paolo mantegazza psychiatry sexual science |
| title | La «chiave dell’enigma»? Variabilità sessuale e narrazioni depatologizzanti nell’antropologia di Paolo Mantegazza |
| title_full | La «chiave dell’enigma»? Variabilità sessuale e narrazioni depatologizzanti nell’antropologia di Paolo Mantegazza |
| title_fullStr | La «chiave dell’enigma»? Variabilità sessuale e narrazioni depatologizzanti nell’antropologia di Paolo Mantegazza |
| title_full_unstemmed | La «chiave dell’enigma»? Variabilità sessuale e narrazioni depatologizzanti nell’antropologia di Paolo Mantegazza |
| title_short | La «chiave dell’enigma»? Variabilità sessuale e narrazioni depatologizzanti nell’antropologia di Paolo Mantegazza |
| title_sort | la chiave dell enigma variabilita sessuale e narrazioni depatologizzanti nell antropologia di paolo mantegazza |
| topic | anthropology homosexuality paolo mantegazza psychiatry sexual science |
| url | http://www.studistorici.com/2021/10/29/campani_numero_47/ |
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