The Politics of the Body in Weimar Germany - Cornelie Usborne - Palgrave,1992
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The Politics of the Body in Weimar Germany
Women's Reproductive Rights and Duties
di Cornelie Usborne
Editore: Palgrave Macmillan
EAN: 9781349122462
ISBN: 1349122467
Pagine: 324
Formato: Paperback
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'.