The Woman’s Body in Expert Discourses on Abortion in Interwar Czechoslovakia
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11240%2F25%3A10498155" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11240/25:10498155 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=swVCqzVrwG" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=swVCqzVrwG</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.30965/18763308-52010003" target="_blank" >10.30965/18763308-52010003</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Woman’s Body in Expert Discourses on Abortion in Interwar Czechoslovakia
Original language description
This study examines the conceptualization of the woman's body in the medical and juridical discourses that significantly influenced debates concerning the legalization of abortion on demand during the First Czechoslovak Republic (1918-1938). Drawing on critical discourse analysis, the study argues that in these expert discourses, scientific and ideological elements converged to advance the body politics of the time, and that nationalistic factors - previously neglected in the Czech scholarship - played a substantial role in shaping views on the woman's body. The study further reveals the links between eugenics and social welfare practices aimed at preventing the reproduction of so-called "undesirable" individuals in arguments about the legalization of abortion. Finally, it asserts that agitation against lay abortionists, ostensibly framed as an effort to protect women's health, may actually have been part of a broader attempt by the medical profession to assert control over women's bodies.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science 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
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
East Central Europe
ISSN
0094-3037
e-ISSN
1876-3308
Volume of the periodical
52
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
27
Pages from-to
55-81
UT code for WoS article
001523577700003
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105006523402