Toward a Population Revolution? The Threat of Extinction and Family Policy in Czechoslovakia 1930s–1950s

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Výsledek na webu

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0363199018759650" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0363199018759650</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0363199018759650" target="_blank" >10.1177/0363199018759650</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Toward a Population Revolution? The Threat of Extinction and Family Policy in Czechoslovakia 1930s–1950s

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The 1930s and 1940s were a formative period in the development of family policy as a relatively independent branch of the state’s social policy in the Bohemian lands. During this time, several political regimes followed one another (liberal democracy, a conservative authoritative regime, the national socialism of the occupation, and postwar people’s democracy). Despite these political changes, family policy was determined by the discourse of the waning Western industrial society and intensifying nationalism throughout the period in question. The articulation of the national threat created the conditions necessary for active state intervention in the sphere of marital cohabitation and managed support of population growth. This entailed compensating families for preserving the nation as a whole by giving birth to a populous new generation. These efforts were often in conflict with the movement for equality among men and women and increased women’s participation in the labor market. The first part of this article describes the discourse of the nation under threat and its political consequences. The second half focuses on the formation of the social reform consensus during the Second World War and after peace was restored. The third part confronts experts’ proposals with political practice: despite the low number of positive legislative measures, this analysis reveals the evident continuity of efforts to create a conceptual, state-led family policy regardless of the vastly different ideologies of the political regimes mentioned.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Toward a Population Revolution? The Threat of Extinction and Family Policy in Czechoslovakia 1930s–1950s

Popis výsledku anglicky

The 1930s and 1940s were a formative period in the development of family policy as a relatively independent branch of the state’s social policy in the Bohemian lands. During this time, several political regimes followed one another (liberal democracy, a conservative authoritative regime, the national socialism of the occupation, and postwar people’s democracy). Despite these political changes, family policy was determined by the discourse of the waning Western industrial society and intensifying nationalism throughout the period in question. The articulation of the national threat created the conditions necessary for active state intervention in the sphere of marital cohabitation and managed support of population growth. This entailed compensating families for preserving the nation as a whole by giving birth to a populous new generation. These efforts were often in conflict with the movement for equality among men and women and increased women’s participation in the labor market. The first part of this article describes the discourse of the nation under threat and its political consequences. The second half focuses on the formation of the social reform consensus during the Second World War and after peace was restored. The third part confronts experts’ proposals with political practice: despite the low number of positive legislative measures, this analysis reveals the evident continuity of efforts to create a conceptual, state-led family policy regardless of the vastly different ideologies of the political regimes mentioned.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GA14-35273S" target="_blank" >GA14-35273S: Liberální společnost, nebo národní společenství? Sociální politika v Protektorátu Čechy a Morava, 1939–1945</a><br>

Návaznosti

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

Rok uplatnění

2018

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Journal of Family History

ISSN

0363-1990

e-ISSN

—

Svazek periodika

43

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

2

Stát vydavatele periodika

US - Spojené státy americké

Počet stran výsledku

17

Strana od-do

177-193

Kód UT WoS článku

000429870100004

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85043318159