Sexual Knowledge(English, Electronic book text, McEwen McEwen Britta)

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Sexual Knowledge(English, Electronic book text, McEwen McEwen Britta) is written by McEwen McEwen Britta and published by Berghahn Books. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0857453386 (ISBN 10) and 9780857453389 (ISBN 13).

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 the interwar years, sexual knowledge was employed by a variety of actors to heal the social body: the truncated, diseased, and impoverished population of the newly created Republic of Austria. Based on rich source material, this book charts cultural changes that are hallmarks of the modern era, such as the rise of the companionate marriage, the role of expert advice in intimate matters, and the body as a source of pleasure and anxiety. These changes are evidence of a dramatic shift in attitudes from a form of scientific inquiry largely practiced by medical specialists to a social reform movement led by and intended for a wider audience that included workers, women, and children.