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Record Nr.

UNISA996248017903316

Autore

Grossmann Atina

Titolo

Reforming sex : the German movement for birth control and abortion reform, 1920-1950 / / Atina Grossmann

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023

ISBN

0-19-771578-8

1-280-52363-8

1-4237-3637-0

0-19-536351-5

1-60129-719-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (333 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

363.460943

363.90943

Soggetti

Birth control - Germany - History - 20th century

Contraception - Germany - History - 20th century

Abortion - Germany - History - 20th century

Eugenics - Germany - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliography: p217-285. _ Includes index.

Previously issued in print: 1995.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-285) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 Germany Epilogue; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This study analyzes a mass movement of doctors and laypeople that demanded women's right to abortion and public access to birth control and sex education in Germany. Their story sheds light on current



controversies about abortion and the role of doctors and the state in controlling women's rights.