Cultures of Abortion in Weimar Germany / / Cornelie Usborne.
Abortion in the Weimar Republic is a compelling subject since it provoked public debates and campaigns of an intensity rarely matched elsewhere. It proved so explosive because populationist, ecclesiastical and political concerns were heightened by cultural anxieties of a modernity in crisis. Based o...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2007] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Monographs in German History ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (296 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- List of Plates
- Preface
- 1 Towards a Cultural History of Abortion
- 2 Cultural Representation: Abortion on Stage, Screen and in Fiction
- 3 Medical Termination of Pregnancy: Theory and Practice
- 4 Abortion in the Marketplace: Lay Practitioners and Doctors Compete
- 5 Women’s Own Voices: Female Perceptions of Abortion
- 6 Abortion as an Everyday Experience in Village Life: A Case Study from Hesse
- 7 Abortion in Early Twentieth-century Germany: Continuity and Change
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index