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The Unspeakable Vice: The Catholic Church and Homosexuality in the Twentieth Century (George L. Mosse Series in the History of European Culture, Sexuality, and Ideas) - Hardcover

Torchiani, Francesco

 
9780299356804: The Unspeakable Vice: The Catholic Church and Homosexuality in the Twentieth Century (George L. Mosse Series in the History of European Culture, Sexuality, and Ideas)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0299356809 ISBN 13: 9780299356804
Verlag: University of Wisconsin Press, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

As gay men and lesbian women increasingly gained recognition and acceptance in twentieth-century literature and film, and subsequently in social and political movements, the Catholic Church reacted by subtly moving away from its overt condemnation of homosexuality as an urgent moral problem and toward tacitly shunning homosexuality as an “unspeakable vice.” In this revealing history, Francesco Torchiani reconstructs the Catholic Church’s shifting attitudes toward homosexuality during this period by drawing on a vast array of internal documents and external accounts. This monograph expands the scholarship on the relationship between Catholicism and homosexuality in terms of both method and content, ultimately concluding that the Catholic Church continues to wholeheartedly condemn homosexuality despite making genuine efforts to reflect on and understand its social and cultural impact. The Unspeakable Vice therefore sheds new light on and places into historical perspective the questions the Catholic Church continues to reckon with regarding its role in contemporary society.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Francesco Torchiani is an associate professor of contemporary history in the Department of Humanities at the University of Pavia. He is the author of Gaetano Salvemini: Impegno intellettuale e lotta politica (Gaetano Salvemini: Intellectual Commitment and Political Struggle).

Johanna Bishop's book-length translations include Luca Cesari's The Discovery of Pasta: A History in Ten Dishes; Amedeo Osti Guerrazzi's Germans, Italians, and Jews: The Police Forces of Occupied Italy, 1943–1945; and Ilaria Pavan's Beyond the Things Themselves: Economic Aspects of the Italian Race Laws (1938–2018).

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Verlag
University of Wisconsin Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2026
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0299356809
ISBN 13 
9780299356804
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Anzahl der Seiten
204
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