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Warum Kinder getötet werden
Mit der Figur des Gretchen hat Johann Wolfgang Goethe im "Faust" nicht nur einfach ein Mädchen, sondern eine Kindsmörderin unsterblich gemacht. Und orientierte sich dabei an einem realen Beispiel, derer in den Stadtarchiven des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts etliche nachzulesen sind. Die Kulturwissenschaftlerin Marita Metz-Becker wagt in Kursbuch 201 einen tiefen Einblick in die ärmlichen Lebensumstände, die elenden Bedingungen, unter denen Frauen damals Kinder zur Welt brachten, ihre bedauernswerte Stellung und die Ambivalenz ihrer Entscheidungen.
The Institution of English Literature
The contributions investigate the ways in which numerous institutions of English literature shape the literary field. While they cover an extensive historical field, ranging from the Early Modern period to the 18th century to the contemporary, they focus not only on literary texts, but also on extra-literary ones, including literary prizes, literary histories and anthologies, and highlight the various ways in which these negotiate the processes that constitute the literary field. All contributions assert that there is no such thing as literature outside of institutions. Great emphasis is therefore put on different acts of mediation.
Children by Choice?
During the 20th century, medico-technical advances such as the invention of the latex condom (1930), the arrival of the contraceptive pill on the free market (1960/61) and the birth of the first child conceived by in vitro fertilization (1978) contributed to the fact that in Europe and the USA, the planning, conceiving and making of children was increasingly perceived as a matter of individual and collective decision-making. Especially since mid-century, these societies underwent profound political, economic and cultural evolutions. In the realm of human reproduction the relationship between the possible, the desirable, and the permitted had to be continually renegotiated. This volume examines in nine chapters how thinking, speaking and acting changed with regards to reproduction and family planning throughout the modern and post-modern period. Applying an international comparative perspective, the study specifically focuses on the role of value changes underlying these transformation processes.
Pain and Prosperity
The turn of the millennium has stimulated much scholarly reflection on the historical significance of the twentieth century as a whole. Explaining the century’s dual legacy of progress and prosperity on one hand, and of world war, genocide, and mass destruction on the other, has become a key task for academics and policymakers alike. Not surprisingly, Germany holds a prominent position in the discussion. What does it mean for a society to be so closely identified with both inflicting and withstanding enormous suffering, as well as with promoting and enjoying unprecedented affluence? What did Germany’s experiences of misery and abundance, fear and security, destruction and reconstruction, trauma and rehabilitation have to do with one another? How has Germany been imagined and experienced as a country uniquely stamped by pain and prosperity? The contributors to this book engage these questions by reconsidering Germany’s recent past according to the themes of pain and prosperity, focusing on such topics as welfare policy, urban history, childbirth, medicine, racism, political ideology, consumerism, and nostalgia.
Der verwaltete Körper
Lieber wäre sie ins tiefste Wasser gegangen, als zu ihrer Niederkunft ein Gebärhaus aufzusuchen – so gab die wegen Kindsmordes verdächtigte Dienstmagd Elisabeth Gunkel 1864 zu Protokoll. Wegen dubioser und oft tödlicher Experimente von den Schwangeren zwar gefürchtet, blieben die Geburtshäuser für viele der unter finanziellem oder moralischem Druck stehenden unverheirateten, verlassenen oder verarmten Frauen doch oft einziger Zufluchtsort. Die Autorin beleuchtet anschaulich das dynamische Wechselspiel der am Medikalisierungsprozeß der Schwangeren beteiligten Systeme: Staat, Justiz, Kirche, Wissenschaft und traditionale Lebenswelten. So entsteht ein lebendiges Bild vom alltäglichen Leben ungewollt Schwangerer im 19. Jahrhundert, von ihren Ängsten, Hoffnungen, ihrer Verzweiflung und auch ihrem Widerstand gegen eine Umwelt, in der sie wenig reale Chancen für sich erkennen konnten. Unveränderter Nachdruck
