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Sexual Knowledge - Feeling, Fact, and Social Reform in Vienna, 1900-1934 (Hardcover)
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Sexual Knowledge - Feeling, Fact, and Social Reform in Vienna, 1900-1934 (Hardcover)
Series: Austrian and Habsburg Studies
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Vienna's unique intellectual, political, and religious traditions
had a powerful impact on the transformation of sexual knowledge in
the early twentieth century. Whereas turn-of-the-century sexology,
as practiced in Vienna as a medical science, sought to classify and
heal individuals, during the interwar years, sexual knowledge was
employed by a variety of actors to heal the social body: the
truncated, diseased, and impoverished population of the newly
created Republic of Austria. Based on rich source material, this
book charts cultural changes that are hallmarks of the modern era,
such as the rise of the companionate marriage, the role of expert
advice in intimate matters, and the body as a source of pleasure
and anxiety. These changes are evidence of a dramatic shift in
attitudes from a form of scientific inquiry largely practiced by
medical specialists to a social reform movement led by and intended
for a wider audience that included workers, women, and children.
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