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

Published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2018

Children by Choice?

Changing Values, Reproduction, and Family Planning in the 20th Century

Edited by: Ann-Katrin Gembries , Theresia Theuke and Isabel Heinemann

Volume 3 in the series Wertewandel im 20. Jahrhundert

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110524499

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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 planning, conceiving and making of children was increasingly perceived as a matter of individual and collective decision-making.

Especially since mid-century, these societies underwent profound political, economic and cultural evolutions. In the realm of human reproduction the relationship between the possible, the desirable, and the permitted had to be continually renegotiated.

This volume examines in nine chapters how thinking, speaking and acting changed with regards to reproduction and family planning throughout the modern and post-modern period. Applying an international comparative perspective, the study specifically focuses on the role of value changes underlying these transformation processes.

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Isabel Heinemann, Universität Münster; Ann-Katrin Gembries, Universität Mainz; Theresia Theuke, Universität Mainz

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Introduction: Children by Choice? Changing Values, Reproduction, and Family Planning in the 20th Century Theresia Theuke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
Birth Control as a National Threat? Pronatalist Discourses on Abortion in France and Germany (1920s–1970s) Ann-Katrin Gembries Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
“Children by Choice” – Family Decisions and Value Change in the Campaigns of the American Planned Parenthood Federation (1942–1973) Claudia Roesch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
“Respect girls as future mothers”: Sex Education as Family Life Education in State Socialist Hungary (1950s–1980s) Eszter Varsa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
Popular Medical Discourses on Birth Control in the Soviet Union during the Cold War: Shifting Responsibilities and Relational Values Yuliya Hilevych and Chizu Sato Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
Paradox of the Pill: Oral Contraceptives in Spain and Poland (1960s–1970s) Agata Ignaciuk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
The Influence of American Sexual Studies on the ‘Sexual Revolution’ of Italian Women Fiammetta Balestracci Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
Discourses on Abortion and their Impact on Institutions in Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic in the Second Half of the 20th Century (1950–2003) Radka Dudová Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
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 Rona Torenz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
From “Children by Choice” to “Families by Choice”? 20th-Century Reproductive Decision-Making between Social Change and Normative Transitions Isabel Heinemann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Pages
- Main content: 240

eBook

Published: May 22, 2018
ISBN: 9783110524499

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Published: May 22, 2018
ISBN: 9783110522020