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In Reforming Sex: The German Movement For Birth Control And Abortion Reform, 1920 To 1950, Atina Grossmann 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 Rights To Abortion And Public Access To Birth Control And Sex Education. Reforming Sex Takes On Questions Of International Context And Comparison As Well As Continuity And Discontinuity In Twentieth Century German History In A Manner That Other Studies Have Not. The Book Follows Weimar Sex Reformers Into The Third Reich, To Exile Around The World, And Into Both The Eastern And Western Zones Of Postwar Germany. It Demonstrates How Deeply Rooted Eugenics Ideology And American And Bolshevik Models Of Modernity Were In The Weimar Movement. It Also E

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Author

Atina Grossmann

Publisher

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9786610523634

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Science, Social Science