The Politics of Fertility in Twentieth-Century Berlin

by Annette F. Timm

What impact does a falling birth rate have on the strength and vitality of a nation? Are citizens duty-bound to think about this question when they make reproductive and sexual choices? Few countries have grappled with these questions so intensely and with such dramatic consequences as Germany. Annette Timm tracks how fears of a declining population influenced reproductive and sexual health policy in Germany from the end of World War I through the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052119539X
• ISBN13: 9780521195393
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 374 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"