The New Yugoslav Woman

Reproductive Regulation in Socialist Yugoslavia

Branka Bogdan (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

254 Seiten

2025
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-07418-8 (ISBN)

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From 1945 to 1989, the Yugoslav state connected its claims of progressive politics and gender equality to its support of free healthcare, sex education and contraception, and laws that supported reproductive choice. Yugoslav men and women internalized these messages, proclaiming their homeland's superior care for its citizens in comparison to postwar Europe and the United States. Even as Yugoslav women faced stigma and abuse for their usage of contraceptives and medical practitioners grappled with new regulations and technology alongside personal ideologies, Yugoslavs celebrated their own reformation into "new" politically minded citizens who carefully navigated tradition and modernity as they reconstructed the nation.
The New Yugoslav Woman provides a social and cultural history of how Yugoslav communists used reproductive regulation to build a platform of socialism through self-management and to position the country as a conduit between the global North and South. Author Branka Bogdan traces reproduction as a central facet of socialist Yugoslavia's state formation through the nation's laws, medical infrastructure, technological growth, and state-run sex education programs. Bringing this history to the present day with a discussion of more than two dozen interviews with Yugoslav patients and medical professionals, Bogdan reveals how these recollections show key continuities with the past rather than an abrupt break between the socialist and post-socialist worlds.
Drawing Yugoslavian women's experiences into the geopolitical history of reproduction and the Cold War–era state, The New Yugoslav Woman reveals the centrality of reproduction, contraception, and abortion to socialist Yugoslavia's self-conception as the developed leader of the developing world.

Branka Bogdan is an Early Career Researcher based in Auckland, New Zealand. She specializes in social and cultural histories of gender, medicine and science, across the New Zealand, European, and US contexts. She brings expertise in oral history interviewing and analysis to her multiple solo and collaborative projects.

Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations and Acronyms
Introduction
1. Establishing a Legal Landscape of Reproductive Regulation, 1945–1953
2. An Infrastructure to Medicalize Reproduction, 1945–1965
3. Yugoslavia and Fertility Control Technology, 1960–1974
4. Yugoslav Sex Education and Family Planning, 1960s and 1970s
5. Deconstructing Yugoslav Women's Recollections of Reproductive Regulation
Conclusion: Regulating Reproduction in Yugoslavia During Socialism, and Beyond
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	13.09.2025
Zusatzinfo	15 b&w illus., 2 b&w tables
Verlagsort	Bloomington, IN
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-253-07418-5 / 0253074185
ISBN-13	978-0-253-07418-8 / 9780253074188
Zustand	Neuware