Unlearning Eugenics - Sexuality, Reproduction, and Disability in Post-Nazi Europe

Since the defeat of the Nazi Third Reich and the end of its horrific eugenics policies, battles over the politics of life, sex, and death have continued and evolved. Herzog documents how reproductive rights and disability rights, both latecomers to the postwar human rights canon, came to be seen as competing--with unexpected consequences.

About the author

Dagmar Herzog is a Distinguished Professor of History and Daniel Rose Faculty Scholar at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her many books include Cold War Freud: Psychoanalysis in an Age of Catastrophes and Sexuality in Europe: A Twentieth-Century History.

Summary

Bringing together the latest findings in Holocaust studies, the history of religion, and the history of sexuality in postwar - and now also postcommunist - Europe, Unlearning Eugenics shows how central the controversies over sexuality, reproduction, and disability have been to broader processes of secularization and religious renewal.

Product details

• Authors: Dagmar Herzog
• Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2018
• EAN: 9780299319205
• ISBN: 978-0-299-31920-5
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: George L. Mosse Series in Mode; The George L. Mosse Series in Modern European Cultural and Intellectual History; George L. Mosse Series in Mode; George L. Mosse the History of
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories