What impact does a falling birth rate have on the strength and
vitality of a nation? Are citizens duty-bound to think about this
question when they make reproductive and sexual choices? Few
countries have grappled with these questions so intensely and with
such dramatic consequences as Germany. Annette Timm tracks how
fears of a declining population influenced reproductive and sexual
health policy in Germany from the end of World War I through the
period of German division in the Cold War. A case study set in
Berlin, the book examines local measures to control venereal
diseases and influence reproductive choices in marriage counseling
clinics. It investigates how policies meant to encourage higher
birth rates created feelings of belonging even as they infringed
upon personal autonomy. The idea that sexual duty should be central
to conceptions of citizenship only died with the changing
circumstances of the late Cold War.
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