Reforming Sex: The German Movement for Birth Control and Abortion Reform, 1920-1950 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780195121247)

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.

Author: Atina Grossmann
ISBN-10: 0195121244
ISBN-13: 9780195121247
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/20/1997
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.12lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.02w x 0.84d