Sex and Society in Early Twentieth Century Spain

This book examines issues of sex and society in early twentieth-century Spain, with particular emphasis on eugenics and the sex reform movement. As a central narrative thread it uses the specific case history of Hildegart Rodriquez (1914-33), a ''eugenic'' child who came to be one of the central players in the Spanish chapter of the World League for Sexual Reform (WLSR) and was made tragically fam...