Sexual liberation, socialist style : Communist Czechoslovakia
and the science of desire, 1945-1989

B 2018

Sexual liberation, socialist style : Communist Czechoslovakia and the science of desire, 1945-1989

LIŠKOVÁ, Kateřina

Basic information

Original name

Sexual liberation, socialist style : Communist Czechoslovakia and the science of desire, 1945-1989

Authors

LIŠKOVÁ, Kateřina (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

1st ed. Cambridge, 281 pp. 2018

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Odborná kniha

Field of Study

50403 Social topics

Country of publisher

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Publication form

printed version "print"

References:

web nakladatele

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14230/18:00100986

Organization unit

Faculty of Social Studies

ISBN

978-1-108-42469-1

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108341332

Keywords in English

area studies; twentieth century European history; history; Russian and East European history; European studies

Abstract

V originále

This is the first account of sexual liberation in Eastern Europe during the Cold War. Kateřina Lišková reveals how, in the case of Czechoslovakia, important aspects of sexuality were already liberated during the 1950s - abortion was legalized, homosexuality decriminalized, the female orgasm came into experts' focus - and all that was underscored by an emphasis on gender equality. However, with the coming of Normalization, gender discourses reversed and women were to aspire to be caring mothers and docile wives. Good sex was to cement a lasting marriage and family. In contrast to the usual Western accounts highlighting the importance of social movements to sexual and gender freedom, here we discover, through the analysis of rich archival sources covering forty years of state socialism in Czechoslovakia, how experts, including sexologists, demographers, and psychologists, advised the state on population development, marriage and the family to shape the most intimate aspects of people's lives.

Links

GJ16-10639Y, research and development project

Name: Intimní život v období státního socialismu v komparativní perspektivě. Sexualita, expertíza a moc ve střední a východní Evropě (1948-1989)

Investor: Czech Science Foundation

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Citovat

LIŠKOVÁ, Kateřina. Sexual liberation, socialist style : Communist Czechoslovakia and the science of desire, 1945-1989. 1st ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018, 281 pp. ISBN 978-1-108-42469-1. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108341332.

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