Buch, Englisch, 324 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 435 g
Reihe: Studies in Gender History
Women's Reproductive Rights and Duties
Buch, Englisch, 324 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 435 g
Reihe: Studies in Gender History
ISBN: 978-1-349-12246-2
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK
This book analyses how the Weimar Republic put Germany in the forefront of social reform and women's emancipation with wide-ranging maternal welfare programmes and labour protection laws. Its enlightened policy of family planning and liberalised abortion laws offered women a new measure of control over their lives. But the new politics of the body also increased state intervention, the power of the medical profession and the tendency to sacrifice women's rights to national interests whenever the Volk seemed in danger of 'racial decline'.
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List of Plates - Preface - List of Abbreviations - Introduction: Historic Background to the Population Debate - Maternity: Production Versus Reproduction - Sexuality: The Battle against Sexual Immorality - Contraception: A Cure for the Body Politic - Abortion: Politics and Medicine - Conclusion - Appendices - Notes - Bibliography - Index
