Reforming the moral subject : ethics and sexuality in Central Europe, 1890-1930 / Tracie Matysik.

  • Matysik, Tracie.
Date:
2008
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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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    History of Medicine
    TP.38.AA8-9
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  • 9780801447129
  • 0801447127