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Politics of the Body in Weimar Germany - Women''s Reproductive Rights and Duties

English · Paperback / Softback

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Klappentext 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'. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

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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

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Authors Cornelie Usborne
Publisher Palgrave UK
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 14.01.2014
 
EAN 9781349122462
ISBN 978-1-349-12246-2
No. of pages 344
Series Studies in Gender History
Studies in Gender and History
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Applied psychology
Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology
Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore

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