Cultures of abortion in Weimar Germany
By: Cornelie Usborne.
Series: Monographs in German history -- v. 17
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9781845453893
Subjects: Abortion -- Germany -- History.; Abortion -- Social aspects -- Germany.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 260-277) and index.
Table of contents: value: Towards a cultural history of abortion; value: Cultural representation : abortion on stage, screen and in fiction; value: Medical termination of pregnancy : theory and practice; value: Abortion in the marketplace : lay practitioners and doctors compete; value: Women's own voices : female perceptions of abortion; value: Abortion as an everyday experience in village life : a case study from Hesse; value: Abortion in early twentieth-century Germany : continuity and change.