Children by Choice? Changing Values, Reproduction, and Family Planning in the 20th Century

0493553 - SOÚ 2019 RIV DE eng M - Monography Chapter
Dudová, Radka
Discourses on Abortion and their Impact on Institutions in Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic in the Second Half of the 20th Century (1950–2003).
Children by Choice? Changing Values, Reproduction, and Family Planning in the 20th Century. Berlin, Boston: Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2018 - (Gembries, A.; Theuke, T.; Heinemann, I.), s. 163-188. ISBN 978-3-11-052202-0
Institutional support: RVO:68378025
Keywords : abortion * reproductive policies * Czechoslovakia
OECD category: Sociology

While attempting to explain the continuity and change of abortion institutions in the former Czechoslovakia /Czech Republic, the chapter focuses on the framing of the debates that preceded the changes in abortion legislation in the Czech Republic since the 1950s. It argues that although the policies and institutions changed, the values stayed quite conservative, especially those pertaining to motherhood. This can be explained by the absence of the feminist movement and it´s framing, and also by the prevalence and continuity of medical framing of the issue of abortion.
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