The Politics of Duplicity - Controlling Reproduction in Ceausescu's Romania (Paperback, New)

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 heartbreaking details of a devastating infant AIDS epidemic. Gail Kligman's ethnography - of the state and of the politics of reproduction - is an 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, affected the physical and emotional well-being not only of individual men, women, children, and families but also of society as a whole. Sexuality, intimacy, and fertility control were fraught with fear, which permeated daily life and took a heavy moral toll as lying and dissimulation transformed both individuals and the state. This study is based on moving interviews with women and physicians as well as on documentary and archival material. In addition to discussing the social implications and human costs of

General

Imprint:	University of California Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	July 1998
First published:	July 1998
Authors:	Gail Kligman
Dimensions:	222 x 146 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	350
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-520-21075-2
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Population & demography > General
LSN:	0-520-21075-1
Barcode:	9780520210752

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