Unlearning eugenics: sexuality, reproduction, and disability in post-Nazi Europe

by Herzog, Dagmar

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Title Statements

Full title :Unlearning eugenics : sexuality, reproduction, and disability in post-Nazi Europe / Dagmar Herzog.

Summary

Since the defeat of the Nazi Third Reich and the end of its horrific eugenics policies, battles over the politics of life, sex, and death have continued and evolved. The author documents how reproductive rights and disability rights, both latecomers to the postwar human rights canon, came to be seen as competing - with unexpected consequences. Bringing together the latest findings in Holocaust studies, the history of religion, and the history of sexuality in postwar - and now also postcommunist - Europe, this book shows how central the controversies over sexuality, reproduction, and disability have been to broader processes of secularization and religious renewal. The author also restores to the historical recorded a revelatory array of activists: Catholic and Protestant theologians who defended abortion rights in the 1960s and 1970s; historians in the 1980s and 1990s who uncovered the long-suppressed connections between the mass murder of the disabled and the Holocaust of European Jewry; feminists involved in the "cripple movement" of the 1980s; lawyers working for right-wing NGOs in the 2000s; and present-day disability advocates.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2018

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):The University of Wisconsin Press
Place of Publication:Madison, Wisconsin
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2018

The Physical Object

Description:viii, 171 pages : : illustrations ; : 23 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780299319205, 0299319202, 9780299319243, 0299319245
oclc:on1030446925
LC Classification:HQ755.5.E8
Dewey Decimal:363.9/2094

Abortion and disability: western Europe, 1960s-1970s -- Moral reasoning in the wake of mass murder: the Singer-Affair and reproductive rights in Germany, 1980s-1990s -- Time well wasted: sexual, political, and psychological subjecthood in the European Union, 2000s-2010s.

Subjects

Abortion Abortion -- History -- 20th century. --… Droits génésiques -- Histoire -- 20e si… Droits génésiques -- Histoire -- 21e si… Eugenics Eugenics -- History. -- Europe Eugénisme -- Histoire. -- Europe Europe History People with disabilities -- Civil rights People with disabilities -- Civil right… People with disabilities -- Civil right… People with disabilities -- Nazi persec… Personnes handicapées -- Droits -- 20e … Personnes handicapées -- Droits -- 21e … Personnes handicapées -- Persécutions n… Reproductive rights Reproductive rights -- History -- 20th … Reproductive rights -- History -- 21st … SCIENCE -- Life Sciences