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glyptodonsneeze's review
4.0
A very interesting book. Atina Grossman documents the post-WWI German birth control movement in great detail. Many acronyms are invoked as lay leagues devoted to providing their members with birth control devices compete and collaborate with health insurance clinics, public clinics, and the women's branches of political organizations to provide women with birth control and education (delivered by doctors, not traditional healers and midwives. They are not organized and are officially swept away by the tides of modernity). Conferences are held, pamphlets are published, and abortion is almost legalized by popular demand until the socialists flub it. A few months later, the Nazis come in. Most doctors flee, and the movement disappears until after the war, when the few survivors who aren't stranded in lonely exile, and didn't beef it politically by allying with the Communists, come back to try to create universal access to birth control and abortion again.
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