Author | : Atina Grossmann |
File Size | : 42,6 Mb |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Language | : English |
Release Date | : 11 May 1995 |
ISBN | : 9780195363517 |
Pages | : 333 pages |
Reforming Sex by Atina Grossmann Book PDF Summary
Reforming Sex reconstructs the complicated history of a movement that has been romanticized as the harbinger of 1960s sexual radicalism and demonized as a precursor to Nazi racial policy, but mostly buried and obscured by Nazi bookburnings and repression. Relying on a broad range of sources--from police reports, films and personal interviews to sex manuals unearthed from library basements and secondhand bookstores--the book analyzes a remarkable mass mobilization during the turbulent and innovative Weimar years of doctors and laypeople for women's right to abortion and public access to birth control and sex education.