Selective pronatalism in childcare and reproductive health policies in Czechoslovakia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12447367 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hana Hašková (0000-0002-3708-5816, Czech Academy of Sciences, corresponding author), Radka Dudová (0000-0002-1359-7710, Czech Academy of Sciences) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 627-648 |
| Publication date | 2020-03-19 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The History of the Family (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1081-602X • E-ISSN: 1873-5398 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1081602x.2020.1737561 |
| OpenAlex | W3011488225 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 32 |
The paper discusses how selective pronatalism has been incorporated into childcare and reproductive health policies in the socialist state of Czechoslovakia (1948–1989). It answers the question of how pronatalist framing has been used to categorise ‘others’, whose procreation has been deemed undesirable. It pays attention to the ways limitations on women’s bodily and social citizenship were used as a tool of selective pronatalism, as well as how the pronatalist framing was linked to the framing of women ́s interests, to determine whether and how women ́s interests were present in the debates on reproduction and childcare. It considers both childcare and reproductive health policies to show how a healthy and able population was to be secured in the socialist state of Czechoslovakia. Based on the framing analysis applied to major policy texts and political discussions preceding legislative changes, the paper analyses the development of abortion policies, policies regulating the use of assisted reproduction technologies, prenatal screening, policies of childcare and family support, and the framings that contributed to their development. By linking the analysis of debates on childcare and reproductive health policies, we argue that although pronatalist framing has been used several times in support of women ́s interests, it has always been patriarchal and exclusionary
Abortion · Citizenship · Economic growth · Economics · Framing (construction · Geography · Legislature · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Population · Pregnancy · Reproductive health · Reproductive rights · Sociology · Gender Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Law · Social Policy and Reform Studies
The impact of political-demographic considerations on European attitudes towards parenting and adoption by same-sex couples
Aging women as sexual beings. Expertise between the 1950s and 1970s in state socialist Czechoslovakia
New eugenics,’ gender and sexuality
Early state socialism and eugenics
Exploring state socialist governmentality
Attitudes Toward Immigration in Europe. Understanding the Links Between Pronatalism and Voluntary Childlessness
Selective Pronatalism and Reproductive Autonomy
Fragile Pronatalism and Reproductive Futures in European Post‐Socialist Contexts
Perceptions of Barriers to Motherhood
Obedient mothers, healthy children
National Identity and Fertility Intentions
Studying collective action
The Politics of Duplicity
The Politics of Gender Culture under State Socialism
Citizenship
Sex on equal terms? Polish sexology on women’s emancipation and ‘good sex’ from the 1970s to the present
Policies and practices of fertility control under the state socialism
Producing Citizens, Reproducing the ‘French Race’
Isabel Blázquez Ornat, El Practicante
The Revenge of History – The Institutional Roots of Post‐Communist Family Policy in the C zech R epublic, H ungary and P oland
The Framing of Abortion in the Czech Republic
Mothers in the Motherland
The Politics of Path Dependency
Regulation of Abortion as State-Socialist Governmentality
Taking ideas and discourse seriously
An indigestible meal? Foucault, governmentality and state theory
Framing
Gender and the Social Rights of Citizenship
Pronatalism, Gender Politics, and the Renewal of Family Support in Russia
Cohort fertility and educational expansion in the Czech Republic during the 20th century
Institutions and Discourses on Childcare for Children Under the Age of Three in a Comparative French-Czech Perspective
Close Your Eyes and Think of England
Intersectionality's Definitional Dilemmas
Chinese Governmentalities
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,83 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |