TY - BOOK ID - 147681780 TI - Sexual knowledge : feeling, fact, and social reform in Vienna, 1900-1934 PY - 2012 SN - 128049669X 9786613591920 0857453386 0857453378 9781280496691 9780857453389 PB - New York : Berghahn Books, DB - UniCat KW - Sexology KW - Sex instruction KW - Social problems KW - History. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:147681780 AB - 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 ER -