The Politics of the Body in Weimar Germany: Women's Reproductive Rights and Duties
(Part of the Studies in Gender History Series)
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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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1349122467
ISBN13:9781349122462
Release Date:January 1992
Publisher:Palgrave MacMillan
Length:324 Pages
Weight:0.96 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"
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