Reforming the moral subject : ethics and sexuality in Central Europe, 1890-1930 / Tracie Matysik.
- Matysik, Tracie.
- Date:
- 2008
- Books
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Publication/Creation
Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2008.
Physical description
xiii, 302 pages ; 24 cm
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Contents
Introduction : critical ethics, or the subject of reform -- An ethics of Gesellschaft -- The "new ethic" : a particularist challenge -- Conflicted sexualities and conflicted secularisms -- Global influences, local responses -- Moral laws and impossible laws : the "female homosexual" and the Criminal Code -- Social matters : social democracy and the ethics of materialism -- Losses and unlikely legacies : psychoanalysis and femininity -- Afterword : moral citizenship, or ethics beyond the law.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-289) and index.
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Location Status History of MedicineTP.38.AA8-9Open shelves
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- 9780801447129
- 0801447127