Politics of Reproduction in a Divided Europe: Abortion, Protest Movements and State Interventions after the Second World War
Language
en
Chapitre d'ouvrage
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The Establishment Responds Power, Politics, and Protest since 1945. 2012-02-07p. 103-122
Palgrave Macmillan
English Abstract
After the Second World War, European states developed new policies toward human reproduction. The deep transformations which occurred in the debates over abortion and over concepts like 'motherhood' and 'reproduction' on ...Read more >
After the Second World War, European states developed new policies toward human reproduction. The deep transformations which occurred in the debates over abortion and over concepts like 'motherhood' and 'reproduction' on both sides of the Berlin wall exemplify the relation of the 'politics of reproduction' to the political systems of postwar Europe. This article presents four case studies of national reproductive policies in Western Europe (Federal Republic of Germany and France) and Eastern Europe (German Democratic Republic and Romania), comparing different states' involvements in abortion legislation in order to analyze the debates, protests and silences which divided people and policies along national and bloc lines in Europe after 1945.Read less <
English Keywords
abortion
postwar Europe
women's movements
France
Germany
Romania
Origin
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