Sexual Liberation, Socialist Style

Communist Czechoslovakia and the Science of Desire, 1945–1989

Nonfiction, History, Eastern Europe, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science
Cover of the book Sexual Liberation, Socialist Style by Kateřina Lišková, Cambridge University Press
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Kateřina Lišková ISBN: 9781108617383
Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication: April 30, 2018
Imprint: Cambridge University Press Language: English
Author: Kateřina Lišková
ISBN: 9781108617383
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: April 30, 2018
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Language: English

This is the first account of sexual liberation in Eastern Europe during the Cold War. Kateřina Lišková reveals how, in the case of Czechoslovakia, important aspects of sexuality were already liberated during the 1950s - abortion was legalized, homosexuality decriminalized, the female orgasm came into experts' focus - and all that was underscored by an emphasis on gender equality. However, with the coming of normalization, gender discourses reversed and women were to aspire to be caring mothers and docile wives. Good sex was to cement a lasting marriage and family. In contrast to the usual Western accounts highlighting the importance of social movements to sexual and gender freedom, here we discover, through the analysis of rich archival sources covering forty years of state socialism in Czechoslovakia, how experts, including sexologists, demographers, and psychologists, advised the state on population development, marriage and the family to shape the most intimate aspects of people's lives.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

This is the first account of sexual liberation in Eastern Europe during the Cold War. Kateřina Lišková reveals how, in the case of Czechoslovakia, important aspects of sexuality were already liberated during the 1950s - abortion was legalized, homosexuality decriminalized, the female orgasm came into experts' focus - and all that was underscored by an emphasis on gender equality. However, with the coming of normalization, gender discourses reversed and women were to aspire to be caring mothers and docile wives. Good sex was to cement a lasting marriage and family. In contrast to the usual Western accounts highlighting the importance of social movements to sexual and gender freedom, here we discover, through the analysis of rich archival sources covering forty years of state socialism in Czechoslovakia, how experts, including sexologists, demographers, and psychologists, advised the state on population development, marriage and the family to shape the most intimate aspects of people's lives.

More books from Cambridge University Press

Cover of the book The Cambridge Introduction to Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Kateřina Lišková
Cover of the book Self-Ownership, Property Rights, and the Human Body by Kateřina Lišková
Cover of the book Behavioral Genetics of the Fly (Drosophila Melanogaster) by Kateřina Lišková
Cover of the book The Cambridge Companion to Writing of the English Revolution by Kateřina Lišková
Cover of the book The Forgotten Kin by Kateřina Lišková
Cover of the book Thinking about Other People in Nineteenth-Century British Writing by Kateřina Lišková
Cover of the book Fire in the Forest by Kateřina Lišková
Cover of the book Conciliarism by Kateřina Lišková
Cover of the book Heinrich Glarean's Books by Kateřina Lišková
Cover of the book Fictions of Mass Democracy in Nineteenth-Century America by Kateřina Lišková
Cover of the book Consumer Culture and the Making of Modern Jewish Identity by Kateřina Lišková
Cover of the book Childhood Programs and Practices in the First Decade of Life by Kateřina Lišková
Cover of the book The Nature of International Law by Kateřina Lišková
Cover of the book Women and Mass Consumer Society in Postwar France by Kateřina Lišková
Cover of the book Indonesia's Changing Political Economy by Kateřina Lišková
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy