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Sexual Liberation, Socialist Style - Communist Czechoslovakia and the Science of Desire, 1945-1989 (Hardcover)
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Sexual Liberation, Socialist Style - Communist Czechoslovakia and the Science of Desire, 1945-1989 (Hardcover)
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This is the first account of sexual liberation in Eastern Europe
during the Cold War. Katerina Liskova 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.
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