Unlearning Eugenics: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Disability in Post-Nazi Europe

by Dagmar Herzog

Book Overview

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. Dagmar Herzog 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299319245
• ISBN13: 9780299319243
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"