Within an interdisciplinary context of public health,
reproductive health, and women's rights, this book chronicles the
interaction of public policies and private reproductive behavior in
the 28 formerly socialist countries of Central and Eastern Europe
and the USSR successor states from 1917 to the present. Focusing on
the interaction of public policies and private behaviors, special
emphasis is placed on the status of women--from producers of labor
to reproducers of families. Consideration is given to societal
values and traditions, Marxist theory, socialist and patriarchal
perceptions of gender roles, status of women, changes in
legislation facilitating or constraining access to modern
contraceptives and abortion, pronatalist influences on demographic
trends, attitudes of public health service providers, views on sex
education, adolescent sexual behavior, and emerging roles of public
services and nongovernmental organizations.
Included are notes on key developments in the USSR successor
states in Europe and in Asia, a discussion of the societal effects
of post-socialist transitions from central planning to market
economies, and commentaries on the changing emphasis from
demographic aspects to reproductive and sexual health, postabortion
psychological responses, and the activities of
antiabortion-oriented religious organizations. To the extent
available, statistical data tabulated include live birth, legally
induced abortions, birth rates, legal abortion rates, legal
abortion ratios, and total fertility rates. Over 1250 references
are listed.
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