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Unlearning Eugenics: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Disability in Post-Nazi Europe
Contributor(s): Herzog, Dagmar (Author)
ISBN: 0299319202     ISBN-13: 9780299319205
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
OUR PRICE:   $37.95  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: November 2018
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | People With Disabilities
- History | Europe - Germany
- Medical | History
Dewey: 363.920
LCCN: 2018011401
Series: George L. Mosse Series in Modern European Cultural and Intel
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.5" W x 8.7" (0.80 lbs) 176 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Germany
- Topical - Physically Challenged
 
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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. Dagmar 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.

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. Herzog also restores to the historical record a revelatory array of activists: from Catholic and Protestant theologians who defended abortion rights in the 1960s-70s to historians in the 1980s-90s who uncovered the long-suppressed connections between the mass murder of the disabled and the Holocaust of European Jewry; from feminists involved in the militant "cripple movement" of the 1980s to lawyers working for right-wing NGOs in the 2000s; and from a handful of pioneers in the 1940s-60s committed to living in intentional community with individuals with cognitive disability to present-day disability self-advocates.