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

Children by Choice? : : Changing Values, Reproduction, and Family Planning in the 20th Century / / ed. by Ann-Katrin Gembries, Theresia Theuke, Isabel Heinemann.

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During the 20th century, medico-technical advances such as the invention of the latex condom (1930), the arrival of the contraceptive pill on the free market (1960/61) and the birth of the first child conceived by in vitro fertilization (1978) contributed to the fact that in Europe and the USA, the...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2018 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Balestracci, Fiammetta,
Dudová, Radka,
Gembries, Ann-Katrin,
Heinemann, Isabel,
Hilevych, Yuliya,
Ignaciuk, Agata,
Roesch, Claudia,
Sato, Chizu,
Theuke, Theresia,
Torenz, Rona,
Varsa, Eszter,
HerausgeberIn:
Gembries, Ann-Katrin,
Heinemann, Isabel,
Theuke, Theresia,
Place / Publishing House:München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2018]
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Wertewandel im 20. Jahrhundert , 3
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Children by Choice? Changing Values, Reproduction, and Family Planning in the 20th Century
  • Birth Control as a National Threat? Pronatalist Discourses on Abortion in France and Germany (1920s–1970s)
  • “Children by Choice” – Family Decisions and Value Change in the Campaigns of the American Planned Parenthood Federation (1942–1973)
  • “Respect girls as future mothers”: Sex Education as Family Life Education in State Socialist Hungary (1950s–1980s)
  • Popular Medical Discourses on Birth Control in the Soviet Union during the Cold War: Shifting Responsibilities and Relational Values
  • Paradox of the Pill: Oral Contraceptives in Spain and Poland (1960s–1970s)
  • The Influence of American Sexual Studies on the ‘Sexual Revolution’ of Italian Women
  • Discourses on Abortion and their Impact on Institutions in Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic in the Second Half of the 20th Century (1950–2003)
  • Narratives about Contraception and Abortion in the GDR (1972–1990) Caught between a Liberal Law, Normative Ways of Living and the Individualization of Family Planning
  • From “Children by Choice” to “Families by Choice”? 20th-Century Reproductive Decision-Making between Social Change and Normative Transitions
  • Authors

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