Sexual knowledge : feeling, fact, and social reform in Vienna, 1900-1934 / Britta McEwen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McEwen, Britta, 1973-

Series:

Austrian and Habsburg studies ; v. 13.

Austrian and Habsburg studies ; v. 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sexology--Austria--Vienna--History.

Sexology.

Sex instruction--Austria--Vienna--History.

Sex instruction.

Social problems--Austria--Vienna--History.

Social problems.

History.

Austria--Vienna.

Physical Description:

viii, 232 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2012.

Summary:

McEwen (European history, Creighton U., Nebraska) explores how knowledge about sex was made and shared in Vienna from the explosion of sexual science in the late Imperial period to the incomplete cultural revolution wrought by the Social Democratic Workers' Party, which ended in 1934. The purpose of sexual knowledge shifted, she finds, from medical science to heal individuals at the turn of the century, to social science to replenish the population after World War I. She attributes the discourse of sexual danger to the fear of venereal infection from returning soldiers. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

City hall and sexual hygiene in red Vienna

Sexual education debates in late imperial and republican Vienna

Popular sexual knowledge for and about women

Clinic culture

Emotional responses : Hugo Bettauer's Vienna weeklies

Local reform on an international stage : the world league for sexual reform in Vienna

Conclusion : sexual knowledge between science and social reform.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780857453372

0857453378

9780857453389

0857453386

OCLC:

752071694