From Abortion to Contraception

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

Henry P. David (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

408 Seiten

1999
Greenwood Press (Verlag)
978-0-313-30587-0 (ISBN)

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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.

HENRY P. DAVID is the Founder and Director of the Transnational Family Research Institute, a nonprofit and nongovernmental research organization in the behavioral sciences with offices located in Bethesda, MD nnyvale, CA ngkok, Thailand noi, Vietnam xico City, Mexico scow, Russia d Prague, Czech Republic.

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 Jurgen 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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.8.1999
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-313-30587-0 / 0313305870
ISBN-13	978-0-313-30587-0 / 9780313305870
Zustand	Neuware