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Sexual Knowledge : Feeling, Fact, and Social Reform in Vienna, 1900-1934.

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 th...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: McEwen, Britta
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2012.
Series:Austrian and Habsburg studies.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • SEXUAL KNOWLEDGE; Austrian and Habsburg Studies; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Vienna as a Laboratory for Sexual Knowledge; Chapter 1City Hall and Sexual Hygiene in Red Vienna; Chapter 2: Sexual Education Debates in Late Imperial; Chapter 3: Popular Sexual Knowledge for and about Women; Chapter 4: Clinic Culture; Chapter 5: Emotional Responses: Hugo Bettauer's Vienna Weeklies; Chapter 6:?Local Reform on an International Stage; Conclusion: Sexual Knowledge between Science and Social Reform; Bibliography; Index.