Focus Project "History of Sexuality"
France form the geographical focus of the study, which, however, takes into account other transnational references and sees itself as a Western European area study. Through concrete practices of contraception [...] nineteenth century. In order to shift the focus of historical studies of sexuality from the normative level to everyday sexual practice, the study draws on first-person documents such as letters, diaries, [...] on the free cities of Hamburg and Bremen, as well as the Prussian cities of Berlin and Altona. The study chronologically examines three political systems – the German Empire, the Weimar Republic, and National