The Politics of Fertility in Twentieth-Century Berlin

Annette F. Timm is Associate Professor of History at the University of Calgary. Her work has appeared in multiple journals and books, including the Canadian Journal of History and the Journal of the History of Sexuality. She is the co-author, with Joshua A. Sanborn, of Gender, Sex and the Shaping of Modern Europe: A History from the French Revolution to the Present Day.

• Introduction: birth rates, ideology, and sexual duties; 1. Venereal disease and the crisis of sexuality in the Weimar Republic; 2. Marriage counseling in the Weimar Republic; 3. Nazi Bevölkerungspolitik, health, and the family; 4. Venereal disease control in the Nazi era; 5. Controlling venereal disease in four-power Berlin; 6. Counseling couples in the post-war rubble; 7. Guarding the health of workers and families in the German Democratic Republic; 8. Sexual duties in Cold-War West Germany; Conclusion: the end of sexual duty and the future of Bevölkerungspolitik.

'Timm presents a nuanced and convincing argument on the basis of extensive research, yielding new and important insights. The scope and focus of this book should certainly generate fruitful discussion.' Edward Dickinson, University of California, Davis