| The Politics of the Body in Weimar Germany: Women's Reproductive Rights and Duties 1992 Edition Contributor(s): Usborne, Cornelie (Author) |
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ISBN: 1349122467 ISBN-13: 9781349122462 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $161.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1992 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Abortion & Birth Control - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General - Social Science | Women's Studies |
| Dewey: 363.960 |
| Series: Studies in Gender History |
| Physical Information: 0.77" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.96 lbs) 324 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Chronological Period - Modern |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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'. |