Reforming Sex : The German Movement for Birth Control and Abortion Reform, 1920-1950

Reforming Sex reconstructs the complicated history of a movement that has been romanticized as the harbinger of 1960s sexual radicalism and demonized as a precursor to Nazi racial policy, but mostly buried and obscured by Nazi bookburnings and repression. Relying on a broad range of sources--from po...

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Bibliographische Detailangaben
1. Verfasser: Grosmann, Atina (VerfasserIn)
Format: E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cary : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 1995
Schlagworte:Contraception Abortion Eugenics Birth control Birth control -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.;Contraception -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.;Abortion -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.;Eugenics -- Germany -- History -- 20th century Electronic books ; local Abortion ; Germany ; History ; 20th century Birth control ; Germany ; History ; 20th century Contraception ; Germany ; History ; 20th century Eugenics ; Germany ; History ; 20th century mehr... Electronic books Deutschland Geburtenregelung Schwangerschaftsabbruch Geschichte 1920-1950
Umfang:1 online resource (333 pages)
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Contents; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction: New Women and Families in the New Germany; 2 ""Prevent: Don't Abort"": The Medicalization and Politicization of Sexuality; 3 Birth Control, Marriage, and Sex Counseling Clinics: The Administration of Sex Reform; 4 ""Your Body Belongs to You"": Abortion and the 1931 Campaign Against Paragraph 218; 5 Forbidden Love: Sex Reform and the Crisis of the Republic, 1931 to 1933; 6 Continuity and Discontinuity: Gleichschaltung and the Destruction of the Sex Reform Movement; 7 Weimar Sex Reform in Exile
  • 8 No Zero Hour: Abortion and Birth Control in Postwar GermanyEpilogue; Notes; Index