Politics of Duplicity Controlling Reproduction in Ceausescu's Romania

Name: Politics of Duplicity Controlling Reproduction in Ceausescu's Romania
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ISBN: 9780520210752

ISBN-10: 0520210751

ISBN-13: 9780520210752

Edition: 1998

Authors: Gail Kligman

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The political hypocrisy and personal horrors of one of the most repressive anti-abortion regimes in history came to the world's attention soon after the fall of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. Photographs of orphans with vacant eyes, sad faces, and wasted bodies circled the globe, as did alarming maternal mortality statistics and heart-breaking details of a devastating infant AIDS epidemic. Gail Kligman's chilling ethnography--of the state and of the politics of reproduction--is the first in-depth examination of this extreme case of political intervention into the most intimate aspects of everyday life. Ceausescu's reproductive policies, among which the banning of abortion was central,…

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List price: $36.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 7/6/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 350
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144



List of Illustrations


List of Tables


Acknowledgments


Note on Diacritics


Introduction: Politics, Reproduction, and Duplicity



Building Socialism in Ceausescu's Romania: Politics as Performance



Legislating Reproduction under Socialism



"Protecting" Women, Children, and the Family



Institutionalizing Political Demography: The Medicalization of Repression



Spreading the Word - Propaganda



Bitter Memories: The Politics of Reproduction in Everyday Life



Legacies of Political Demography



Coercion and Reproductive Politics: Lessons from Romania



Court Cases


Notes


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Index