Agata Ignaciuk
Biographic Data
| ID | 364362 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Agata Ignaciuk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Agata |
| FAMILY NAME | Ignaciuk |
| SIGNATURE | IGNACIUK A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad de Granada |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7866-6895 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Weaponizing the law: Acción Familiar and ‘pro-life’ strategic litigation in Spain (1985–1990)
This article explores the history of the Spanish ‘pro-life’ movement during the final decades of the twentieth century. While recent sociological scholarship has characterised the Spanish ‘pro-life’ movement of the 1980s as being dominated by uncoordinated and inexperienced organisations that were dependent on the Catholic Church, our analysis of primary sources, such as legal documents and media accounts, seeks to provide a more nuanced interpre…
On the Cover: The Politics of Seeing Pregnancy
Frida Kahlo's artistic rendering of childbirth appears on the cover of this issue of Technology and Culture . This essay invites readers to view the history of medicine and technology through images, by tracing multi-sited genealogies of their visual cultures. The shifting representations of pregnancy, miscarriage, and abortion can enrich historical research and teaching on twentieth-century reproductive biomedicine by foregrounding how images pr…
Reproductive Healthcare in Transition: Women Doctors and Abortion Services in Spain (1980s–1990s)
This article examines the history of legal abortion in Spain through the experiences of women physicians and gynaecologists who provided abortions following a partial decriminalisation of the procedure in 1985. Through oral history interviews, contextualised through a range of primary sources, including mass media articles, medical literature, and government reports, I analyse the professional and activist trajectories of women doctors between th…
The Family Planning Association and Contraceptive Science and Technology in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain by Natasha Szuhan (review)
Introduction: Sex, Science, and Censorship
Unawareness and Expertise: Acquiring Knowledge about Sexuality in Postwar Poland
Regendering Childbirth: Catholicism, Medical Activism, and Birth Preparation in Post-War Poland
This article examines the work of the gynecologist Włodzimierz Fijałkowski, the key promoter of preparation for childbirth in Communist and early democratic Poland. From the late 1950s until the 1990s, Fijałkowski developed a childbirth preparation training protocol that served as an inspiration for childbirth preparation schools across the country. Through analysis of Fijałkowski’s publications in medical journals, books aimed at both profession…
Criminalization, Medicalization, and Stigmatization: Genealogies of Abortion Activism in Poland
This article explores the long history of Polish abortion activism from the late 1950s to the present day. Using feminist genealogy, we examine how (de)criminalization, (de)medicalization, and (de)stigmatization are addressed in the strategic narratives of three interconnected organizations: the Polish Planned Parenthood Association (PPPA), established in 1957; the Federation for Women and Family Planning (FWFP), established in 1991; and the Abor…
Premarital Sex in State-Socialist Poland: A Generational Perspective
In this article, we examine personal narratives on premarital sex by two generations of Polish men and women—one born in the 1950s and 1960s, and their parents’ generation, born in the 1920s and 1930s and coming of age during or after World War II—and place these in dialogue with discourses surrounding young sexuality in state-socialist Poland. Using sociological surveys, popular sexological literature, and Catholic marriage preparation material,…
Catholic Intimacies: Negotiating Contraception in Late Communist Poland
The majority of people in Poland self-identified as Catholic throughout the second half of the twentieth century. Despite the Polish Episcopate's unanimous rejection of contraception as immoral and sinful, a considerable proportion of Polish Catholics utilized family planning techniques and technologies explicitly banned by their institutional Church. This article uses personal narratives to show how Polish Catholics negotiated their use of Churc…
Marriage, Gender and Demographic Change: Managing Fertility in State-Socialist Poland
This paper explores fertility management practices in state-socialist Poland and investigates post-war demographic change through the lenses of gender and modernization. Using personal narratives from oral histories and memoirs, we examine reproductive decision-making processes from the 1940s to the 1980s, focusing on motivations, norms, and the means employed to achieve desired family size. Our analysis reveals the ambiguous nature of both moder…
Innovation and Maladjustment: Contraceptive Technologies in State-Socialist Poland, 1950s-1970s
A range of contraceptive technologies was available in Poland between the late 1950s and early 1970s. Following the legalization of abortion in 1956, a public health campaign, supported by the communist authorities, popularized contraception. Based on archival sources, press items, and popular medical literature, this article is the first systematic study of contraceptive technologies in postwar Poland before the pill, which also examines the tra…
In Sickness and in Health: Expert Discussions on Abortion Indications, Risks, and Patient-Doctor Relationships in Postwar Poland
This article analyzes expert debates relating to abortion in Poland between 1956 and 1993, a period when the procedure was legal and accessible. Through the pages of the primary Polish journal for gynecology and obstetrics, Ginekologia Polska, the author traces continuities and ruptures around three major intersecting themes: the procedure's indications, its (dis)connection to health, and the patient-doctor relationship. The journal became a foru…
The Circulation of Penicillin in Spain: Health, Wealth and Authority by María Jesús Santesmases
Reviewed by: The Circulation of Penicillin in Spain: Health, Wealth and Authority by María Jesús Santesmases Agata Ignaciuk (bio) The Circulation of Penicillin in Spain: Health, Wealth and Authority By María Jesús Santesmases. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. Pp. 239. The Circulation of Penicillin in Spain: Health, Wealth and Authority By María Jesús Santesmases. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. Pp. 239. With The Circulation of Penicillin in Sp…
Family Planning Advice in State-Socialist Poland, 1950s–80s: Local and Transnational Exchanges
This paper scrutinises the relations between different models of family planning advice and their evolution in Poland between the mid-1950s and the late 1980s, focusing on their similarities and dissimilarities, conflicts and concordances. From 1956 onwards, the delivery of family planning advice became a priority for both the Polish Catholic Church and the party-state, especially its health authorities, which supported the foundation of the Soci…
Investigar y comunicar la historia de la anticoncepción
En este trabajo se lleva a cabo una breve revisión de la producción académica más reciente sobre la historia de la anticoncepción en un ámbito internacional y se establecen las principales líneas de investigación desarrolladas. A continuación, se presenta y reflexiona sobre una experiencia de divulgación online acerca de la anticoncepción en España durante el franquismo y la transición democrática
Charters for Choice: Abortion Travel, Abortion Referral Networks and Spanish Women's Transnational Reproductive Agency, 1975–1985
The last decade has witnessed the blossoming of abortion referral networks assisting women who live in healthcare jurisdictions that limit their access to abortion services. The Abortion Support Network has facilitated abortion travel to Britain for women from Ireland, Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man. In 2019, it expanded to support women from Malta and Gibraltar.1 Ciocia Basia, Kumpela and Abortion Network Amsterdam aid women from Poland, w…
No Man’s Land? Gendering Contraception in Family Planning Advice Literature in State-Socialist Poland (1950s–1980s)
This article examines popular medical discourses on contraception produced in state-socialist Poland following the legalisation of abortion in 1956, a time when the party state declared family planning to be a public health project. By analysing popular medical literature, I argue that the popularisation of family planning constructed and relied on gender norms that could ease anxieties about the mainstreaming of ideas relating to sexuality and c…
Isabel Blázquez Ornat, El Practicante: El Nacimiento de una Nueva Profesión Sanitaria en España
El Practicante is the first monograph dedicated to the health profession established in mid-19th-century Spain to fill the void following the fusion of medicine and surgery: minor surgery. Licenced since the educational reform of 1857, El Practicante was assigned the treatment of wounds, blood-letting and vaccination. His (the profession was highly masculinised) degree of autonomy varied depending on location: although generally subordinate and a…
Barbara Klich-Kluczewska, Rodzina, tabu i komunizm w Polsce, 1956-1989 [Famille, tabou]: Cracovie, Libron, 2015, 296 p
Ce livre de Barbara Klich-Kluczewska est sans aucun doute un des ouvrages les plus marquants des dernières années en histoire culturelle de l'État polonais communiste.Barbara Klich Kluczewska, qui est rattachée à la faculté d'histoire de l'université Jagellonne de Cracovie, est une des figures dirigeantes de l'histoire anthropologique et de l'histoire du genre en Pologne.Intéressée par les méthodes de l'histoire orale, visuelle et comparative, el…
“Pregnancy and labour cause more deaths than oral contraceptives”: The debate on the pill in the Spanish press in the 1960s and 1970s
From 1941 to 1978, Franco’s regime in Spain banned all contraceptive methods. The pill started circulating in Spain from the 1960s, officially as a drug used in gynaecological therapy. However, in the following decade it was also increasingly used and prescribed as a contraceptive. This paper analyses debates about the contraceptive pill in the Spanish daily newspaper ABC and in two magazines, Blanco y Negro and Triunfo, in the 1960s and 1970s. I…
Ovulostáticos y anticonceptivos: El conocimiento médico sobre "la pildora" en España durante el franquismo y la transición democrática (1940-1979)
1.-Introduccin. 2.-Familiaridad con la terapia hormonal en la ginecologa espaola posterior a la Guerra Civil. 3.-Difusin de los norderivados. Auge de la ovulostasis. 4.-Del uso experimental a la receta habitual. Problemas de terminologa y legalidad. 5.-Conclusiones
No Man’s Land? Gendering Contraception in Family Planning Advice Literature in State-Socialist Poland (1950s–1980s)
This article examines popular medical discourses on contraception produced in state-socialist Poland following the legalisation of abortion in 1956, a time when the party state declared family planning to be a public health project. By analysing popular medical literature, I argue that the popularisation of family planning constructed and relied on gender norms that could ease anxieties about the mainstreaming of ideas relating to sexuality and c…
Criminalization, Medicalization, and Stigmatization: Genealogies of Abortion Activism in Poland
This article explores the long history of Polish abortion activism from the late 1950s to the present day. Using feminist genealogy, we examine how (de)criminalization, (de)medicalization, and (de)stigmatization are addressed in the strategic narratives of three interconnected organizations: the Polish Planned Parenthood Association (PPPA), established in 1957; the Federation for Women and Family Planning (FWFP), established in 1991; and the Abor…
Marriage, Gender and Demographic Change: Managing Fertility in State-Socialist Poland
This paper explores fertility management practices in state-socialist Poland and investigates post-war demographic change through the lenses of gender and modernization. Using personal narratives from oral histories and memoirs, we examine reproductive decision-making processes from the 1940s to the 1980s, focusing on motivations, norms, and the means employed to achieve desired family size. Our analysis reveals the ambiguous nature of both moder…
Charters for Choice: Abortion Travel, Abortion Referral Networks and Spanish Women's Transnational Reproductive Agency, 1975–1985
The last decade has witnessed the blossoming of abortion referral networks assisting women who live in healthcare jurisdictions that limit their access to abortion services. The Abortion Support Network has facilitated abortion travel to Britain for women from Ireland, Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man. In 2019, it expanded to support women from Malta and Gibraltar.1 Ciocia Basia, Kumpela and Abortion Network Amsterdam aid women from Poland, w…
Ovulostáticos y anticonceptivos: El conocimiento médico sobre "la pildora" en España durante el franquismo y la transición democrática (1940-1979)
1.-Introduccin. 2.-Familiaridad con la terapia hormonal en la ginecologa espaola posterior a la Guerra Civil. 3.-Difusin de los norderivados. Auge de la ovulostasis. 4.-Del uso experimental a la receta habitual. Problemas de terminologa y legalidad. 5.-Conclusiones
Reproductive Healthcare in Transition: Women Doctors and Abortion Services in Spain (1980s–1990s)
This article examines the history of legal abortion in Spain through the experiences of women physicians and gynaecologists who provided abortions following a partial decriminalisation of the procedure in 1985. Through oral history interviews, contextualised through a range of primary sources, including mass media articles, medical literature, and government reports, I analyse the professional and activist trajectories of women doctors between th…
Unawareness and Expertise: Acquiring Knowledge about Sexuality in Postwar Poland
Premarital Sex in State-Socialist Poland: A Generational Perspective
In this article, we examine personal narratives on premarital sex by two generations of Polish men and women—one born in the 1950s and 1960s, and their parents’ generation, born in the 1920s and 1930s and coming of age during or after World War II—and place these in dialogue with discourses surrounding young sexuality in state-socialist Poland. Using sociological surveys, popular sexological literature, and Catholic marriage preparation material,…
Catholic Intimacies: Negotiating Contraception in Late Communist Poland
The majority of people in Poland self-identified as Catholic throughout the second half of the twentieth century. Despite the Polish Episcopate's unanimous rejection of contraception as immoral and sinful, a considerable proportion of Polish Catholics utilized family planning techniques and technologies explicitly banned by their institutional Church. This article uses personal narratives to show how Polish Catholics negotiated their use of Churc…
Isabel Blázquez Ornat, El Practicante: El Nacimiento de una Nueva Profesión Sanitaria en España
El Practicante is the first monograph dedicated to the health profession established in mid-19th-century Spain to fill the void following the fusion of medicine and surgery: minor surgery. Licenced since the educational reform of 1857, El Practicante was assigned the treatment of wounds, blood-letting and vaccination. His (the profession was highly masculinised) degree of autonomy varied depending on location: although generally subordinate and a…
Ovulostáticos y anticonceptivos: El conocimiento médico sobre "la pildora" en España durante el franquismo y la transición democrática (1940-1979)
1.-Introduccin. 2.-Familiaridad con la terapia hormonal en la ginecologa espaola posterior a la Guerra Civil. 3.-Difusin de los norderivados. Auge de la ovulostasis. 4.-Del uso experimental a la receta habitual. Problemas de terminologa y legalidad. 5.-Conclusiones
“Pregnancy and labour cause more deaths than oral contraceptives”: The debate on the pill in the Spanish press in the 1960s and 1970s
From 1941 to 1978, Franco’s regime in Spain banned all contraceptive methods. The pill started circulating in Spain from the 1960s, officially as a drug used in gynaecological therapy. However, in the following decade it was also increasingly used and prescribed as a contraceptive. This paper analyses debates about the contraceptive pill in the Spanish daily newspaper ABC and in two magazines, Blanco y Negro and Triunfo, in the 1960s and 1970s. I…
Barbara Klich-Kluczewska, Rodzina, tabu i komunizm w Polsce, 1956-1989 [Famille, tabou]: Cracovie, Libron, 2015, 296 p
Ce livre de Barbara Klich-Kluczewska est sans aucun doute un des ouvrages les plus marquants des dernières années en histoire culturelle de l'État polonais communiste.Barbara Klich Kluczewska, qui est rattachée à la faculté d'histoire de l'université Jagellonne de Cracovie, est une des figures dirigeantes de l'histoire anthropologique et de l'histoire du genre en Pologne.Intéressée par les méthodes de l'histoire orale, visuelle et comparative, el…
No Man’s Land? Gendering Contraception in Family Planning Advice Literature in State-Socialist Poland (1950s–1980s)
This article examines popular medical discourses on contraception produced in state-socialist Poland following the legalisation of abortion in 1956, a time when the party state declared family planning to be a public health project. By analysing popular medical literature, I argue that the popularisation of family planning constructed and relied on gender norms that could ease anxieties about the mainstreaming of ideas relating to sexuality and c…
Isabel Blázquez Ornat, El Practicante: El Nacimiento de una Nueva Profesión Sanitaria en España
El Practicante is the first monograph dedicated to the health profession established in mid-19th-century Spain to fill the void following the fusion of medicine and surgery: minor surgery. Licenced since the educational reform of 1857, El Practicante was assigned the treatment of wounds, blood-letting and vaccination. His (the profession was highly masculinised) degree of autonomy varied depending on location: although generally subordinate and a…
Family Planning Advice in State-Socialist Poland, 1950s–80s: Local and Transnational Exchanges
This paper scrutinises the relations between different models of family planning advice and their evolution in Poland between the mid-1950s and the late 1980s, focusing on their similarities and dissimilarities, conflicts and concordances. From 1956 onwards, the delivery of family planning advice became a priority for both the Polish Catholic Church and the party-state, especially its health authorities, which supported the foundation of the Soci…
Investigar y comunicar la historia de la anticoncepción
En este trabajo se lleva a cabo una breve revisión de la producción académica más reciente sobre la historia de la anticoncepción en un ámbito internacional y se establecen las principales líneas de investigación desarrolladas. A continuación, se presenta y reflexiona sobre una experiencia de divulgación online acerca de la anticoncepción en España durante el franquismo y la transición democrática
Charters for Choice: Abortion Travel, Abortion Referral Networks and Spanish Women's Transnational Reproductive Agency, 1975–1985
The last decade has witnessed the blossoming of abortion referral networks assisting women who live in healthcare jurisdictions that limit their access to abortion services. The Abortion Support Network has facilitated abortion travel to Britain for women from Ireland, Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man. In 2019, it expanded to support women from Malta and Gibraltar.1 Ciocia Basia, Kumpela and Abortion Network Amsterdam aid women from Poland, w…
In Sickness and in Health: Expert Discussions on Abortion Indications, Risks, and Patient-Doctor Relationships in Postwar Poland
This article analyzes expert debates relating to abortion in Poland between 1956 and 1993, a period when the procedure was legal and accessible. Through the pages of the primary Polish journal for gynecology and obstetrics, Ginekologia Polska, the author traces continuities and ruptures around three major intersecting themes: the procedure's indications, its (dis)connection to health, and the patient-doctor relationship. The journal became a foru…
The Circulation of Penicillin in Spain: Health, Wealth and Authority by María Jesús Santesmases
Reviewed by: The Circulation of Penicillin in Spain: Health, Wealth and Authority by María Jesús Santesmases Agata Ignaciuk (bio) The Circulation of Penicillin in Spain: Health, Wealth and Authority By María Jesús Santesmases. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. Pp. 239. The Circulation of Penicillin in Spain: Health, Wealth and Authority By María Jesús Santesmases. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. Pp. 239. With The Circulation of Penicillin in Sp…
Premarital Sex in State-Socialist Poland: A Generational Perspective
In this article, we examine personal narratives on premarital sex by two generations of Polish men and women—one born in the 1950s and 1960s, and their parents’ generation, born in the 1920s and 1930s and coming of age during or after World War II—and place these in dialogue with discourses surrounding young sexuality in state-socialist Poland. Using sociological surveys, popular sexological literature, and Catholic marriage preparation material,…
Catholic Intimacies: Negotiating Contraception in Late Communist Poland
The majority of people in Poland self-identified as Catholic throughout the second half of the twentieth century. Despite the Polish Episcopate's unanimous rejection of contraception as immoral and sinful, a considerable proportion of Polish Catholics utilized family planning techniques and technologies explicitly banned by their institutional Church. This article uses personal narratives to show how Polish Catholics negotiated their use of Churc…
Marriage, Gender and Demographic Change: Managing Fertility in State-Socialist Poland
This paper explores fertility management practices in state-socialist Poland and investigates post-war demographic change through the lenses of gender and modernization. Using personal narratives from oral histories and memoirs, we examine reproductive decision-making processes from the 1940s to the 1980s, focusing on motivations, norms, and the means employed to achieve desired family size. Our analysis reveals the ambiguous nature of both moder…
Innovation and Maladjustment: Contraceptive Technologies in State-Socialist Poland, 1950s-1970s
A range of contraceptive technologies was available in Poland between the late 1950s and early 1970s. Following the legalization of abortion in 1956, a public health campaign, supported by the communist authorities, popularized contraception. Based on archival sources, press items, and popular medical literature, this article is the first systematic study of contraceptive technologies in postwar Poland before the pill, which also examines the tra…
Unawareness and Expertise: Acquiring Knowledge about Sexuality in Postwar Poland
Regendering Childbirth: Catholicism, Medical Activism, and Birth Preparation in Post-War Poland
This article examines the work of the gynecologist Włodzimierz Fijałkowski, the key promoter of preparation for childbirth in Communist and early democratic Poland. From the late 1950s until the 1990s, Fijałkowski developed a childbirth preparation training protocol that served as an inspiration for childbirth preparation schools across the country. Through analysis of Fijałkowski’s publications in medical journals, books aimed at both profession…
Criminalization, Medicalization, and Stigmatization: Genealogies of Abortion Activism in Poland
This article explores the long history of Polish abortion activism from the late 1950s to the present day. Using feminist genealogy, we examine how (de)criminalization, (de)medicalization, and (de)stigmatization are addressed in the strategic narratives of three interconnected organizations: the Polish Planned Parenthood Association (PPPA), established in 1957; the Federation for Women and Family Planning (FWFP), established in 1991; and the Abor…
The Family Planning Association and Contraceptive Science and Technology in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain by Natasha Szuhan (review)
Introduction: Sex, Science, and Censorship
On the Cover: The Politics of Seeing Pregnancy
Frida Kahlo's artistic rendering of childbirth appears on the cover of this issue of Technology and Culture . This essay invites readers to view the history of medicine and technology through images, by tracing multi-sited genealogies of their visual cultures. The shifting representations of pregnancy, miscarriage, and abortion can enrich historical research and teaching on twentieth-century reproductive biomedicine by foregrounding how images pr…
Reproductive Healthcare in Transition: Women Doctors and Abortion Services in Spain (1980s–1990s)
This article examines the history of legal abortion in Spain through the experiences of women physicians and gynaecologists who provided abortions following a partial decriminalisation of the procedure in 1985. Through oral history interviews, contextualised through a range of primary sources, including mass media articles, medical literature, and government reports, I analyse the professional and activist trajectories of women doctors between th…
Weaponizing the law: Acción Familiar and ‘pro-life’ strategic litigation in Spain (1985–1990)
This article explores the history of the Spanish ‘pro-life’ movement during the final decades of the twentieth century. While recent sociological scholarship has characterised the Spanish ‘pro-life’ movement of the 1980s as being dominated by uncoordinated and inexperienced organisations that were dependent on the Catholic Church, our analysis of primary sources, such as legal documents and media accounts, seeks to provide a more nuanced interpre…
Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (16 works) · Political science (13 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Abortion (9 works) · European history and politics (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies (8 works) · Family planning (6 works) · Pregnancy (6 works)