The politics of the body in Weimar Germany : women's reproductive rights and duties

Author(s)

• Usborne, Cornelie

Bibliographic Information

The politics of the body in Weimar Germany : women's reproductive rights and duties

Cornelie Usborne

（Studies in gender history）

Macmillan, 1992

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 266-291) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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'.

Table of Contents

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

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA18338430
• ISBN:
  • 0333547713
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Basingstoke
• Pages/Volumes: xx, 304 p., [16] p. of plates
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HQ766.5.G4
  • DC20 : 363.9/6/0943
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Birth control -- Government policy -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
  • LCSH : Birth control -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History -- 20th century
  • LCSH : Germany -- Population policy
  • LCSH : Germany -- Social conditions -- 1918-1933
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA13368638