In [this book] Britta McEwen has produced an interesting and useful work of scholarship that not only deals with a previously neglected topic, but, in so doing, also expands the still under-researched field of interwar Austria.
American Historical Review McEwen has based her excellent and lively written book, which covers a broad range of issues related to ... Read morethe shaping of sexual knowledge in Austria, on a close investigation of a wide range of sources. McEwen's book should become a standard reference for anybody interested in the history of sexuality in the German-speaking world during the first third of the twentieth century.
German Studies Review McEwen's study adds to the burgeoning scholarship on Austrian sexuality that deserves to be integrated into, and has a significant contribution to make to, the interdisciplinary, comparative work done in the fields of sexuality and media studies.
Austrian History Yearbook ...this study constitutes a stimulating and extensively researched voyage through the polyphonic discourses concerning the role of sexual knowledge in Viennese society during periods of social upheaval and transformation...Apart from being epistemologically refreshing, McEwen's focus on the emotional dimension yields a powerful testament to the democratizing impulses of sexual knowledge in interwar Vienna. Compelling and rich, McEwen's study foregrounds unjustly obscured actors in Austrian cultural history, and in so doing offers an original contribution to European sexuality studies.
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