Control and Emancipation of Sexuality in the German Social State after the Second World War

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25360053
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Gender
• Research Institution: Meiji University
• Principal Investigator: Mitobe Yoshie 明治大学, 政治経済学部, 准教授 (20398902)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 戦後ドイツ / 社会国家 / セクシュアリティ / 家族 / 性病 / 妊娠中絶 / ケーテ・シュトローベル / ハンス・ギーゼ

Outline of Final Research Achievements

During the late 1940’s and 1950’s Germany strived for state restoration through the reconstruction of the modern family, which effectively meant control over sexual behavior. However after the mid-1960’s, West Germany’s social state could not enforce an effective policy to control adolescents, who opposed state intervention into the private sphere and demanded approval for their modern lifestyles and rights to sexual and reproductive self-determination. This study discusses the mechanisms that led to a drift between the ideal of the state and reality, with particular focus on the relationships between individuals, family, society and the state, focussing on their different perspectives of sexuality.

Free Research Field

ドイツ近現代史