The Right to Make Choices About Our Bodies Only Belongs to Us!: Induced Abortion and the Communist Women’s Press in Interwar Czechoslovakia
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.14712/24645370.3060" target="_blank" >10.14712/24645370.3060</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Right to Make Choices About Our Bodies Only Belongs to Us!: Induced Abortion and the Communist Women’s Press in Interwar Czechoslovakia
Original language description
This article analyses the discourse of the communist women's press in the First Czechoslovak Republic in connection with the induced abortion. Most radical voices of the time regarding the right to terminate one's own pregnancy can be found in the press of the far left which has been largely neglected in historiogra-phy so far, and therefore, this article strives to present these voices, not least be-cause they reflect issues of gender equality and bodily integrity that are extremely relevant nowadays. The article also pays close attention to the heterogeneity of the communist discourse and the radical turn after the abortion ban in the So-viet Union. In addition, the analysis includes medical arguments supporting the communist discourse as well as the most relevant contradictory voices. It also sketches the developments in the communist women's magazine Rozsévačka and the related political background, including the bills legalizing abortion. Finally, it problematizes the simple link between proponents of abortion rights nowadays and back then.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50404 - Anthropology, ethnology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Dějiny - teorie - kritika (History-Theory-Criticism.)
ISSN
1214-7249
e-ISSN
2464-5370
Volume of the periodical
2023
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
33
Pages from-to
127-159
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85168343609