Sexual liberation, socialist style : Communist Czechoslovakia and the science of desire, 1945-1989
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/sexual-liberation-socialist-style/ECEFAB809A019B2F7D63267B9D95CEAD" target="_blank" >https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/sexual-liberation-socialist-style/ECEFAB809A019B2F7D63267B9D95CEAD</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108341332" target="_blank" >10.1017/9781108341332</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Sexual liberation, socialist style : Communist Czechoslovakia and the science of desire, 1945-1989
Original language description
This is the first account of sexual liberation in Eastern Europe during the Cold War. Kateřina Lišková reveals how, in the case of Czechoslovakia, important aspects of sexuality were already liberated during the 1950s - abortion was legalized, homosexuality decriminalized, the female orgasm came into experts' focus - and all that was underscored by an emphasis on gender equality. However, with the coming of Normalization, gender discourses reversed and women were to aspire to be caring mothers and docile wives. Good sex was to cement a lasting marriage and family. In contrast to the usual Western accounts highlighting the importance of social movements to sexual and gender freedom, here we discover, through the analysis of rich archival sources covering forty years of state socialism in Czechoslovakia, how experts, including sexologists, demographers, and psychologists, advised the state on population development, marriage and the family to shape the most intimate aspects of people's lives.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
B - Specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50403 - Social topics (Women´s and gender studies; Social issues; Family studies; Social work)
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GJ16-10639Y" target="_blank" >GJ16-10639Y: Intimate life during state socialism in comparative perspective. Sexuality, expertise, and power in East Central Europe (1948-1989)</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
ISBN
9781108424691
Number of pages
281
Publisher name
Cambridge University Press
Place of publication
Cambridge
UT code for WoS book
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