| Reforming Sex: The German Movement for Birth Control and Abortion Reform, 1920-1950 Contributor(s): Grossmann, Atina (Author) |
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ISBN: 0195121244 ISBN-13: 9780195121247 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $103.95 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 1997 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Germany - Social Science | Abortion & Birth Control - Social Science | Women's Studies |
| Dewey: 363.909 |
| LCCN: 94013050 |
| Lexile Measure: 1810 |
| Physical Information: 0.84" H x 6.02" W x 9.2" (1.12 lbs) 336 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Central Europe - Cultural Region - Eastern Europe - Cultural Region - Germany - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |