The Woman’s Body in Expert Discourses on Abortion in Interwar Czechoslovakia
Identifikátory výsledku
Kód výsledku v 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>
Výsledek na webu
<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>
Alternativní jazyky
Jazyk výsledku
angličtina
Název v původním jazyce
The Woman’s Body in Expert Discourses on Abortion in Interwar Czechoslovakia
Popis výsledku v původním jazyce
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.
Název v anglickém jazyce
The Woman’s Body in Expert Discourses on Abortion in Interwar Czechoslovakia
Popis výsledku anglicky
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.
Klasifikace
Druh
J<sub>imp</sub> - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science
CEP obor
—
OECD FORD obor
50404 - Anthropology, ethnology
Návaznosti výsledku
Projekt
—
Návaznosti
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Ostatní
Rok uplatnění
2025
Kód důvěrnosti údajů
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Údaje specifické pro druh výsledku
Název periodika
East Central Europe
ISSN
0094-3037
e-ISSN
1876-3308
Svazek periodika
52
Číslo periodika v rámci svazku
1
Stát vydavatele periodika
NL - Nizozemsko
Počet stran výsledku
27
Strana od-do
55-81
Kód UT WoS článku
001523577700003
EID výsledku v databázi Scopus
2-s2.0-105006523402