Fabio Corbisiero (a cura di), Comunità omosessuali. Le scienze sociali sulla popolazione LGBT, FrancoAngeli Editore, pp. 287

• Main Author: Maria Antonietta Selvaggio
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Università di Napoli Federico II 2013-10-01
• Series: La camera blu
• Subjects: LGBT, queer, eterosessismo, pluralizzazione dei generi e delle sessualità, città arcobaleno
• Online Access: http://www.camerablu.unina.it/index.php/camerablu/article/view/2015

The book review shall examine the work Comunità omosessuali. Le scienze sociali sulla popolazione LGBT (Homosexual community. The social sciences on the LGBT population), Fabio Corbisiero (ed.), offering a detailed survey of the points of view expressed by various disciplines on issues related to LGBT people’s identity and rights in a heterosexist society. It is highlighted the critical and proactive approach with which the male and female authors of the fifteen essays in the volume analyze homosexuality as a plural condition, spread and mobile of the  human existence. What that is exceeded in the theory and practice is the dichotomous homosexuality/ heterosexuality principle which for long time structured the social knowledge, ensuring an effective instrument of control and social order. Nowadays, the instance that is imposed on the planes of the knowledge and reality is that of a necessary "pluralization", without which it can’t be guaranteed a  true citizenship to people and homosexual communities.