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

• Autore: Grossmann Atina
• Pubblicazione: New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (333 p.)
• Disciplina: 363.460943; 363.90943
• Soggetto topico: Birth control - Germany - History - 20th century; Contraception - Germany - History - 20th century; Abortion - Germany - History - 20th century; Eugenics - Germany - History - 20th century
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Reforming sex
• ISBN: 0-19-771578-8; 1-280-52363-8; 1-4237-3637-0; 0-19-536351-5; 1-60129-719-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996248017903316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Oxford scholarship online.