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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Vienna's unique intellectual, political, and religious traditions had a powerful impact on the transformation of sexual knowledge in the early twentieth century. Whereas turn-of-the-century sexology, as practiced in Vienna as a medical science, sought to classify and heal individuals, during the interwar years, sexual knowledge was employed by a variety of actors to heal the social body: the truncated, diseased, and impoverished population of the newly created Republic of Austria. Based on rich source material, this book charts cultural changes that are hallmarks of the modern era, such as the

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-80758-338-4

1-280-49669-X

9786613591920

0-85745-338-6

OCLC:

793996546