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Sexual Treason in Germany during the First World War

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Authors:
  1. Lisa M. Todd

    1. University of New Brunswick, New Brunswick, Canada

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  • Provides the first comprehensive study of sexual lives in Germany and German-occupied Europe during the First World War
  • Utilizes a wide variety of sources from state agencies including government correspondence and health records
  • Explains how the discourses and lived realities of wartime can provide insight into the nationalization of the private body and state intervention in intimate affairs

Part of the book series: Genders and Sexualities in History (GSX)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

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    Pages 1-18

  3. Enticing Men to Lechery

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    Pages 19-35

  4. Almost All Loose Girls Are Infected

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    Pages 37-74

  5. Suspicious and Provocative Behaviour

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    Pages 75-99

  6. Six Months in Jail for Russian Love

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    Pages 101-135

  7. The Dangers of the Two Child Family

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    Pages 137-159

  8. To Satisfy the Demands of Foreigners

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    Pages 161-184

  9. Conclusion

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    Pages 185-193

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 195-227
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About this book

This book is the first comprehensive study of sexual lives in Germany and occupied Europe during the First World War. Reconsidering sex in war brings to life a whole cast of characters too often left out of the historical narrative:  widowed women who worked as prostitutes, fresh-faced recruits who experienced the war in a VD hospital, eugenicists who conflated sex and national decline, soldiers’ wives ostracized by neighbourhood rumour mills. By considering the confluence of public discourse, state policy, and everyday life, Lisa M. Todd adds to the growing body of knowledge on war and society in the twentieth century. By incorporating the 1914-1918 experience into the longer frame of the pre-war sex reform movement and the post-war Allied occupation of the Rhineland, this book is able to more fully evaluate the impact of the war years on the history of intimate relations in early twentieth-century Germany.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of New Brunswick, New Brunswick, Canada

    Lisa M. Todd

About the author

Lisa M. Todd is Associate Professor of History at the University of New Brunswick, Canada, where she teaches the history of modern Germany, war, genocide, gender, and sexuality. She is also director of the Network for the Study of Civilians, Soldiers and Society at the Milton F. Gregg Centre for the Study of War and Society.

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