Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. List of Figures 8
4. Acknowledgements 11
5. List of Archives and Used Abbreviations 13
6. Introduction. The Politics of Disability: Structure and Agency in Nation Building in Czechoslovakia 15
7. Part 1. Building the Czechoslovak Nation and Sacralizing Peoples’ Health: The Vicissitudes of Disability Discourse during the Interwar Period
8. Introduction 29
9. 1. Establishing National Public Health in Interwar Czechoslovakia 35
10. 2. The Discourse of Disability 61
11. 3. Politics Concerning the Roma during the Interwar Period 77
12. Part 2. Postwar Institutionalization of Care for the Disabled: Toward a Universalized Discourse of “Defective Gypsies”
13. Introduction 105
14. 4. Special Education in Czechoslovakia between 1939 and 1989 109
15. 5. The Intersectionality of Disability and Race in Public and Professional Discourses about the Roma in Socialist Czechoslovakia 145
16. 6. The Forced Sterilization of Roma Women between the 1970s and the 1980s 177
17. Conclusions 203
18. Abstracts in German and French 213
19. Bibliography 215
20. Index 251