EUGENICS AND FEMALE EMBODIMENT IN CZECHOSLOVAK PUBLIC CAMPAIGNS DURING THE 1960S AND 1970S

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14410%2F18%3A00100796" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14410/18:00100796 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.bohemia-online.de/index.php/bohemia/issue/view/106" target="_blank" >https://www.bohemia-online.de/index.php/bohemia/issue/view/106</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.18447/BoZ-2018-4380" target="_blank" >10.18447/BoZ-2018-4380</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

EUGENICS AND FEMALE EMBODIMENT IN CZECHOSLOVAK PUBLIC CAMPAIGNS DURING THE 1960S AND 1970S

Original language description

This study deals with policies directed at women in Czechoslovakia in the 1960s and1970s. The author has studied several public campaigns in the press and on the radio that aimed at changing women’s behaviour. Their goal was to encourage women to use the contraceptive pill. This new practice was described as natural, progressive and self-determined. However, unwanted behavioural patterns (such as abortion, postponing motherhood) were condemned as old-fashioned or unhealthy. This was based on a pronatalistic policy aimed at increasing the birth rates of the majority society. While Czech and Slovak women should have two or three children, access to abortion was facilitated for Roma women and women with disabilities, but also for women from socially disadvantaged families. This image of the modern socialist woman, mistress and mother, shows clear continuities with the time of the so-called national rebirth in the 19thcentury

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50403 - Social topics (Women´s and gender studies; Social issues; Family studies; Social work)

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA15-10625S" target="_blank" >GA15-10625S: Child welfare discourses and practices in the Czech lands: the segregation of Roma and disabled children in the nineteenth and until current period</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Bohemia: A Journal of History and Civilisation in East Central Europe

ISSN

0523-8587

e-ISSN

0523-8587

Volume of the periodical

2018 (58)

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

19

Pages from-to

109-127

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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