The World League for Sexual Reform, its cosmopolitan outlook, and the ‘marriage question’ (1928-1935) (original) (raw)

Abstract

The interwar period saw a rise of transnational activities by advocates of the sexual reform movement in Europe ultimately culminating in the formation of the World League for Sexual Reform in 1928. Right after the demand for ‘equality of man and women’, marriage reform, or, in the parlance of the time ‘the liberation of marriage’ ranked high on its 10-point agenda. This paper will discuss the tension between the League’s self-conception as a global agent for sexual reform and its exclusively European personnel. In spite of this undeniably Eurocentric bias it will be shown how knowledge about non-western practices of sex and marriage did nonetheless inform the criticism of European marriage.

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