num_pages: 336
description: Reforming Sex reconstructs the complicated history of a movement that has been romanticized as the harbinger of 1960s sexual radicalism and demonized as a precursor to Nazi racial policy, but mostly buried and obscured by Nazi bookburnings and repression. Relying on a broad range of sources--from police reports, films and personal interviews to sex manuals unearthed from library basements and secondhand bookstores--the book analyzes a remarkable mass mobilization during the turbulent and innovative Weimar years of doctors and laypeople for women's right to abortion and public access to birth control and sex education.
language: English
title: Reforming Sex: The German Movement for Birth Control and Abortion Reform, 1920-1950
titlecomplete: Reforming Sex: The German Movement for Birth Control and Abortion Reform, 1920-1950
genres: History, Germany
ratings_count: 11
publisher: Oxford University Press