The Politics of the Body in Weimar Germany: Women's Reproductive Rights and Duties (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781349122462)

This book analyses how the Weimar Republic put Germany in the forefront of social reform and women's emancipation with wide-ranging maternal welfare programmes and labour protection laws. Its enlightened policy of family planning and liberalised abortion laws offered women a new measure of control over their lives. But the new politics of the body also increased state intervention, the power of the medical profession and the tendency to sacrifice women's rights to national interests whenever the Volk seemed in danger of 'racial decline'.

Author: Cornelie Usborne
ISBN-10: 1349122467
ISBN-13: 9781349122462
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 01/01/1992
Pages: 324
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.77d