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Author:

Matysik, Tracie

Title:

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

Publisher:

Cornell University Press,

Copyright Date:

2008

Description:

xiii, 302 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Ethical culture movement--Europe, Central--History--19th century.
Ethical culture movement--Europe, Central--History--20th century.
Sexual ethics--Europe, Central--History--19th century.
Sexual ethics--Europe, Central--History--20th century.
Ethics, Modern--19th century
Ethics, Modern--20th century
Europe, Central--Intellectual life--19th century.
Europe, Central--Intellectual life--20th century.
Europe, Central--Moral conditions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-289) and index.

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.

ISBN:

0801447127 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780801447129 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)228371883

LCCN:

2008033583

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)