Sexual treason in Germany during the First World War / Lisa M. Todd.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Todd, Lisa Marie, author.

Series:

Genders and sexualities in history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex customs--Germany--History--20th century.

Sex customs.

World War, 1914-1918--Germany.

World War, 1914-1918.

History.

Germany.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 227 pages ; 22 cm.

Other Title:

Sexual treason in Germany during the 1st World War

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]

Summary:

This book is the first comprehensive study of sexual lives in Germany and occupied Europe during the First World War. Reconsidering sex in war brings to life a whole cast of characters too often left out of the historical narrative: widowed women who worked as prostitutes, fresh-faced recruits who experienced the war in a VD hospital, eugenicists who conflated sex and national decline, soldiers' wives ostracized by neighbourhood rumour mills. By considering the confluence of public discourse, state policy, and everyday life, Lisa M. Todd adds to the growing body of knowledge on war and society in the twentieth century. By incorporating the 1914-1918 experience into the longer frame of the pre-war sex reform movement and the post-war Allied occupation of the Rhineland, this book is able to more fully evaluate the impact of the war years on the history of intimate relations in early twentieth-century Germany.

Contents:

Introduction

Enticing men to lechery

Almost all loose girls are infected

Suspicious and provocative behavior

Six months in jail for Russian love

The dangers of the two child family

To satisfy the demands of foreigners

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-216) and index.

ISBN:

3319515136

9783319515137

OCLC:

964378295