From Abortion to Contraception - A Resource to Public Policies and Reproductive Behavior in Central and Eastern Europe from 1917 to the Present

Within an interdisciplinary context of public health, reproductive health, and women's rights, this book chronicles the interaction of public policies and private reproductive behavior in the 28 formerly socialist countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the USSR successor states from 1917 to the present. Focusing on the interaction of public policies and private behaviors, special emphasis is placed on the status of women-from producers of labor to reproducers of families. Consideration is given to societal values and traditions, Marxist theory, socialist and patriarchal perceptions of gender roles, status of women, changes in legislation facilitating or constraining access to modern contraceptives and abortion, pronatalist influences on demographic trends, attitudes of public health service providers, views on sex education, adolescent sexual behavior, and emerging roles of public services and nongovernmental organizations.

Included are notes on key developments in the USSR successor states in Europe and in Asia, a discussion of the societal effects of post-socialist transitions from central planning to market economies, and commentaries on the changing emphasis from demographic aspects to reproductive and sexual health, postabortion psychological responses, and the activities of antiabortion-oriented religious organizations. To the extent available, statistical data tabulated include live birth, legally induced abortions, birth rates, legal abortion rates, legal abortion ratios, and total fertility rates. Over 1250 references are listed.

List of contents

Foreword by Anastasia Posadskaya Vanderbeck
Preface by Henry P. David
Introduction
Overview by Henry P. David
Understanding the "Abortion Culture" in Central and Eastern Europe by Libor Stloukal
The Woman Question by Henry P. David and Joanna Skilogianis
Country Reports
Albania by Amilda Dymi and Pamela Pine
Bulgaria by Dimiter Vassilev
Czech Republic and Slovak Republic by Vladimir Wynnyczuk and Radim Uzel
The Former German Democratic Republic by Jürgen Dorbritz and Jochen Fleischhacker
Hungary by Henry P. David
Poland by Anna Titkow
Romania by Adriana Baban
Russian Federation and USSR Successor States by Andrej A. Popov and Henry P. David
Former Yugoslavia and Successor States by Nila Kapor-Stanulovic and Henry P. David
Resources
References
Index

About the author

Henry P. David

Product details

• Authors: David Henry P.
• Assisted by: Henry P. David (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.08.1999
• EAN: 9780313305870
• ISBN: 978-0-313-30587-0
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Human Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Demography, Psychology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Abortion & Birth Control, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Women in Politics, Social welfare & social services, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Social welfare and social services, Ethical issues: abortion & birth control, Gender studies: women, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Gender studies: women and girls, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), Sociology: family and relationships, c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Human rights, civil rights, Population & demography, Population and Demography, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period), Ethical issues: abortion and birth control, Sociology: Birth, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Soviet