From Abortion to Contraception ― A Resource to Public Policies and Reproductive Behavior in Central and Eastern Europe from 1917 to the Present

Within an interdisciplinary context of public health, reproductive health, and women's rights, this book chronicles the interaction of public policies and private reproductive behavior in the 28 formerly socialist countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the USSR successor states from 1917 to the present. Focusing on the interaction of public policies and private behaviors, special emphasis is placed on the status of women--from producers of labor to reproducers of families. Consideration is given to societal values and traditions, Marxist theory, socialist and patriarchal perceptions of gender roles, status of women, changes in legislation facilitating or constraining access to modern contraceptives and abortion, pronatalist influences on demographic trends, attitudes of public health service providers, views on sex education, adolescent sexual behavior, and emerging roles of public services and nongovernmental organizations.

HENRY P. DAVID is the Founder and Director of the Transnational Family Research Institute, a nonprofit and nongovernmental research organization in the behavioral sciences with offices located in Bethesda, MD

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