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

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Introduction: Children by Choice? Changing Values, Reproduction, and Family Planning in the 20th Century 7
4. Birth Control as a National Threat? Pronatalist Discourses on Abortion in France and Germany (1920s–1970s) 21
5. “Children by Choice” – Family Decisions and Value Change in the Campaigns of the American Planned Parenthood Federation (1942–1973) 57
6. “Respect girls as future mothers”: Sex Education as Family Life Education in State Socialist Hungary (1950s–1980s) 77
7. Popular Medical Discourses on Birth Control in the Soviet Union during the Cold War: Shifting Responsibilities and Relational Values 99
8. Paradox of the Pill: Oral Contraceptives in Spain and Poland (1960s–1970s) 123
9. The Influence of American Sexual Studies on the ‘Sexual Revolution’ of Italian Women 145
10. Discourses on Abortion and their Impact on Institutions in Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic in the Second Half of the 20th Century (1950–2003) 163
11. 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 189
12. From “Children by Choice” to “Families by Choice”? 20th-Century Reproductive Decision-Making between Social Change and Normative Transitions 215
13. Authors 237