The Politics of the Body in Weimar Germany: Women's Reproductive Rights and Duties

by Cornelie Usborne

Book Overview

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"