The Politics of the Body in Weimar Germany - Women's Reproductive Rights and Duties (Hardcover)

In the first three decades of this century Germany was concerned to protect its Volkskorper, the body politic, from the ravages of a social "disease" which affected all western Europe. This "disease" was a decline in the birth rate. The "solution" to this "disease" involved interfering with the Frauenkorper, the female body. German women's sexuality was to be controlled so that the number of healthy children required for a powerful state would be produced. However the politics of reproduction carried a potential conflict between Volkskorper and Frauenkorper, between collective and individual interests. This conflict is central to this study which analyses the tactics which the German state and its agencies used to regulate the size and balance of population to accord with their social, economic and political beliefs rather than with the views and wishes of individuals. During the Weimar Republic individual women and families were the target of intervention in four different areas of policy those of maternity, sexuality, contraception and abortion. In this study birth control is understood to encompass all the popular practices of avoiding unwanted children as well as the two differ

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Studies in Gender History
Release date:	April 1992
First published:	1992
Authors:	Cornelie Usborne
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	324
ISBN-13:	978-0-333-54771-7
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Birth Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Population & demography > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Central government > Central government policies Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Ethical issues & debates > Abortion Books > History > European history > General Books > History > World history > From 1900 > General Promotions
LSN:	0-333-54771-3
Barcode:	9780333547717

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