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Women and Citizenship in Central and Eastern Europe

By: Joanna Regulska

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Women and Citizenship in Central and Eastern Europe

By: Joanna Regulska

The transformations seen in women's active citizenship in Central and Eastern Europe mirror the social political and economic transformations in the region since the fall of communism at the end of the 1980s. This book challenges the universal notion of 'citizenship' by focusing on the diversity of situations women in this region have found themselves in since the end of the 1980s, looking at the challenges and struggles they have faced to assert themselves as citizens and their citizenship rights. Featuring detailed case studies which demonstrate the social and political discrimination between women that still exists, the book will be of interest to academics and post-graduate students in women's/gender studies, political sociology and European studies.

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Routledge

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1351872389

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The Politics of Morality

The Church, the State, and Reproductive Rights in Postsocialist Poland

By: Joanna Mishtal

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The Politics of Morality

The Church, the State, and Reproductive Rights in Postsocialist Poland

By: Joanna Mishtal

After the fall of the state socialist regime and the end of martial law in 1989, Polish society experienced both a sense of relief from the tyranny of Soviet control and an expectation that democracy would bring freedom. After this initial wave of enthusiasm, however, political forces that had lain concealed during the state socialist era began to emerge and establish a new religious-nationalist orthodoxy. While Solidarity garnered most of the credit for democratization in Poland, it had worked quietly with the Catholic Church, to which a large majority of Poles at least nominally adhered. As the church emerged as a political force in the Polish Sejm and Senate, it precipitated a rapid erosion of women’s reproductive rights, especially the right to abortion, which had been relatively well established under the former regime. The Politics of Morality is an anthropological study of this expansion of power by the religious right and its effects on individual rights and social mores. It explores the contradictions of postsocialist democratization in Poland: an emerging democracy on one hand, and a declining tolerance for reproductive rights, women’s rights, and political and religious pluralism on the other. Yet, as this thoroughly researched study shows, women resist these strictures by pursuing abortion illegally, defying religious prohibitions on contraception, and organizing into advocacy groups. As struggles around reproductive rights continue in Poland, these resistances and unofficial practices reveal the sharp limits of religious form of governance.

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Ohio University Press

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0821445170

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9780821445174

Women and Citizenship in Central and Eastern Europe

By: Joanna Regulska

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Women and Citizenship in Central and Eastern Europe

Women and Citizenship in Central and Eastern Europe

The Politics of Morality

The Politics of Morality

Women and Citizenship in Central and Eastern Europe

Women and Citizenship in Central and Eastern Europe

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