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

ISBN-13: 9780195121247 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 336 str.

Atina Grossmann

Opis

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 police reports, films and personal interviews to sex manuals unearthed from library basements and secondhand bookstores--the book analyzes a remarkable mass mobilization during the turbulent and innovative Weimar years of doctors and laypeople for women's right to abortion and public access to birth control and sex education.

Recenzje

Her interesting study is backed up by primary sources from archives in the Federal Republic and former East Germany, as well as contemporary publications, and she is fully conversant with the existing critical literature. Altogether, this book fits naturally into a now growing library on German medical, social and sexual policy from 1918 to the present.