Sexual Knowledge : : Feeling, Fact, and Social Reform in Vienna, 1900-1934 / / Britta McEwen.

Vienna’s unique intellectual, political, and religious traditions had a powerful impact on the transformation of sexual knowledge in the early twentieth century. Whereas turn-of-the-century sexology, as practiced in Vienna as a medical science, sought to classify and heal individuals, during the int...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:Austrian and Habsburg Studies ; 13
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Vienna as a Laboratory for Sexual Knowledge
  • Chapter 1 City Hall and Sexual Hygiene in Red Vienna
  • Chapter 2 Sexual Education Debates in Late Imperial and Republican Vienna
  • Chapter 3 Popular Sexual Knowledge for and about Women
  • Chapter 4 Clinic Culture
  • Chapter 5 Emotional Responses: Hugo Bettauer’s Vienna Weeklies
  • Chapter 6 Local Reform on an Interna tional Stage: The World League for Sexual Reform in Vienna
  • Conclusion: Sexual Knowledge between Science and Soc ial Reform
  • Bibliography
  • Index