Lišková / Liskova Sexual Liberation, Socialist Style

Communist Czechoslovakia and the Science of Desire, 1945–1989
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-108-57648-2
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

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This is the first account of sexual liberation in Eastern Europe during the Cold War. Katerina 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lišková, Katerina

Liskova, Katerina

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Sweeping changes in sexuality across East Central Europe; 2. The public family: collectivized equality in the long 1950s; 3. The female orgasm: from treating infertility to managing pleasure; 4. The privatized family: atomized hierarchy during Normalization; 5. Male deviance: now you see them, now you don't; Conclusion; Primary sources; Bibliography; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Lišková, Katerina
Katerina Lišková teaches gender studies and sociology at Masaryk University, Czech Republic, and works as a Fellow at Technische Universität Berlin, Germany. In the past, she was affiliated with Columbia University and the New School for Social Research.