Reforming Sex

The German Movement for Birth Control and Abortion Reform, 1920-1950

By: Atina Grossman

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Hardcover | 1 May 1995

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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.

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`Her interesting study is backed up by primary sources from archives in the Federal Republic and former East Germany, as well as contemporary publications, and she is fully conversant with the existing critical literature. Altogether, this book fits naturally into a now growing library on German medical, social and sexual policy from 1918 to the present.' Michael H. Kater, York University, Social History of Medicine, Vol. 10, No. 2 '97

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Abbreviations	p. xv
Introduction: New Women and Families in the New Germany	p. 3
"Prevent: Don't Abort": The Medicalization and Politicization of Sexuality	p. 14
Birth Control, Marriage, and Sex Counseling Clinics: The Administration of Sex Reform	p. 46
"Your Body Belongs to You": Abortion and the 1931 Campaign Against Paragraph 218	p. 78
Forbidden Love: Sex Reform and the Crisis of the Republic, 1931 to 1933	p. 107
Continuity and Discontinuity: Gleichschaltung and the Destruction of the Sex Reform Movement	p. 136
Weimar Sex Reform in Exile	p. 166
No Zero Hour: Abortion and Birth Control in Postwar Germany	p. 189
Epilogue	p. 213
Notes	p. 217
Index	p. 287
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