Challenging Norms - Family Planning As a Reflection of Social Change in Twentieth

Access to reproductive healthcare, including abortions and family planning services, remains a deeply polarizing issue within contemporary Eastern Europe. Originally a question reserved for couples, this topic has since been elevated to the public realm through the emergence of modern nation states. Challenging Norms offers a geographically wide-ranging re-examination of family planning in twentieth-century Eastern Europe, interrogating the relationship between social attitudes to family planning and the forces of social, economic, and political modernization. In doing so, this volume highlights how these changes provide invaluable insights into ever-evolving societal norms and values.

About the author

Denisa Nesťáková is a research associate at the Herder Institute. Specializing in twentieth-century East Central Europe, the Holocaust, and gender studies, she is currently concluding her post-doctoral project Privileged to be in Hell. Jewish Women in the Sereď Camp which has been supported by the Saul Kagan Fellowship in Advanced Shoah Studies. Her recent publications include her 2023 monograph, Be Fruitful and Multiply. Slovakia's Family Planning under Three Regimes (1918-1965) (Herder Institute).

Product details

• Authors: Heidi Hiemer Hein-Kircher
• Assisted by: Heidi Hein-Kircher (Editor), Elisa-Maria Hiemer (Editor), Nes& (Editor), Denisa Nešťáková (Editor)
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2025
• EAN: 9781805399643
• ISBN: 978-1-80539-964-3
• No. of pages: 392
• Series: New Perspectives on Central and Eastern European Studies
• Subjects: Guides; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Eastern Europe, European History, 20th Century, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Europe / Eastern, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Abortion & Birth Control, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, Ethical issues: abortion & birth control, Ethical issues: abortion and birth control