Reforming Sex
Author | : Atina Grossmann |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 1995-05-11 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780195363517 |
ISBN-13 | : 0195363515 |
Rating | : 4/5 (515 Downloads) |
Download or read book Reforming Sex written by Atina Grossmann and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1995-05-11 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.