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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of California Press
ISBN-100520210751
ISBN-139780520210752
eBay Product ID (ePID)264722
Product Key Features
Number of Pages350 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NamePolitics of Duplicity : Controlling Reproduction in Ceausescu's Romania
Publication Year1998
SubjectSociology / General, Gender Studies, World / European
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaPolitical Science, Social Science
AuthorGail Kligman
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight19.2 Oz
Item Length8.8 in
Item Width5.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN97-049421
Dewey Edition21
TitleLeadingThe
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal363.9/09498
Table Of ContentLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS LIST OF TABLES ACKNOWLEDGMENTS NOTE ON DIACRITICS INTRODUCTION: POLITICS, REPRODUCTION,AND DUPLICITY 1. Building Socialism in Ceausescu's Romania:Politics as Performance 2. Legislating Reproduction under Socialism 3· "Protecting" Women, Children, and the Family 4· Institutionalizing Political Demography: The Medicalization of Repression 5· Spreading the Word-Propaganda 6. Bitter Memories:The Politics of Reproduction in Everyday Life 7· Legacies of Political Demography 8. Coercion and Reproductive Politics:Lessons from Romania APPENDIX: COURT CASES NOTES SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
SynopsisThe political hypocrisy and personal horrors of one of the most repressive anti-abortion regimes in history came to the world's attention soon after the fall of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. Photographs of orphans with vacant eyes, sad faces, and wasted bodies circled the globe, as did alarming maternal mortality statistics and heart-breaking details of a devastating infant AIDS epidemic. Gail Kligman's chilling ethnography--of the state and of the politics of reproduction--is the first in-depth examination of this extreme case of political intervention into the most intimate aspects of everyday life. Ceausescu's reproductive policies, among which the banning of abortion was central, affected the physical and emotional well-being not only of individual men, women, children, and families but also of society as a whole. Sexuality, intimacy, and fertility control were fraught with fear, which permeated daily life and took a heavy moral toll as lying and dissimulation transformed both individuals and the state. This powerful study is based on moving interviews with women and physicians as well as on documentary and archival material. In addition to discussing the social implications and human costs of restrictive reproductive legislation, Kligman explores the means by which reproductive issues become embedded in national and international agendas. She concludes with a review of the lessons the rest of the world can learn from Romania's tragic experience., The political hypocrisy and personal horrors of one of the most repressive anti-abortion regimes in history came to the world's attention soon after the fall of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. Photographs of orphans with vacant eyes, sad faces, and wasted bodies circled the globe, as did alarming maternal mortality statistics and heart-breaking details of a devastating infant AIDS epidemic. Gail Kligman's chilling ethnography-of the state and of the politics of reproduction-is the first in-depth examination of this extreme case of political intervention into the most intimate aspects of everyday life. Ceausescu's reproductive policies, among which the banning of abortion was central, affected the physical and emotional well-being not only of individual men, women, children, and families but also of society as a whole. Sexuality, intimacy, and fertility control were fraught with fear, which permeated daily life and took a heavy moral toll as lying and dissimulation transformed both individuals and the state. This powerful study is based on moving interviews with women and physicians as well as on documentary and archival material. In addition to discussing the social implications and human costs of restrictive reproductive legislation, Kligman explores the means by which reproductive issues become embedded in national and international agendas. She concludes with a review of the lessons the rest of the world can learn from Romania's tragic experience.
LC Classification Number97-49421
