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The paper focuses Italian women’s internment in asylums in contemporary city. In line with a certain historiography that has exceeded the traditional interpretative paradigm of social control and highlighted the role not merely passive of individuals in the face of charitable institutions, it tries to relate the forms of discipline represented by asylum, the behavior and the knowledge of the doctors of that time with some social practices and cultures spread among working classes. It focuses on the particular case of Turin, an industrial city in those years in rapid population growth; through the intersection of quantitative and qualitative sources, it tries to highlight a specific aspect of the dynamics of mental hospitals: their analogy with an authoritarian vision of the relationship between genders, expressed in other aspect of everyday social relations, family, friends, job. |
