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Children by Choice?

Autor: Ann-katrin Gembries , Theresia Theuke , Isabel Heinemann

Número de Páginas: 240

During the 20th century, medico-technical advances such as the invention of the latex condom (1930), the arrival of the contraceptive pill on the free market (1960/61) and the birth of the first child conceived by in vitro fertilization (1978) contributed to the fact that in Europe and the USA, the planning, conceiving and making of children was increasingly perceived as a matter of individual and collective decision-making. Especially since mid-century, these societies underwent profound political, economic and cultural evolutions. In the realm of human reproduction the relationship between the possible, the desirable, and the permitted had to be continually renegotiated. This volume examines in nine chapters how thinking, speaking and acting changed with regards to reproduction and family planning throughout the modern and post-modern period. Applying an international comparative perspective, the study specifically focuses on the role of value changes underlying these transformation processes.

Abortion across Borders

Autor: Christabelle Sethna , Gayle Davis

Número de Páginas: 361

A timely examination of how restrictive policies force women to travel both within and across national borders to access abortion services. Safe, legal, and affordable abortion is widely recognized as an essential medical service for women across the world. When access to that service is denied or restricted, women are compelled to carry unwanted pregnancies to term, seek backstreet abortionists, attempt self-induced abortions, or even travel to less restrictive states, provinces, and countries to receive care. Abortion across Borders focuses on travel across domestic and international boundaries to terminate a pregnancy. Christabelle Sethna and Gayle Davis have gathered a cadre of authors to examine how restrictive policies force women to move both within and across national borders in order to reach abortion providers, often at great expense, over long distances and with significant safety risks. Taking historical and contemporary perspectives, contributors examine the situation in regions that include Texas, Prince Edward Island, Ireland, Australia, the United Kingdom, and Eastern Europe. Throughout, they take a feminist intersectional approach to transnational travel and...

The Routledge Handbook of Sexuality in East Central Europe

Autor: Agnieszka Kościańska , Anita Kurimay , Kateřina Lišková , Hadley Z. Renkin

Número de Páginas: 489

This handbook provides an overview of scholarly research on sexuality in East Central Europe for both students and academics, focusing on the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia, from the late nineteenth century to the present. The collection is organized into eight sections covering major areas of research including non-normative sexualities; family, marriage, and kinship; race/ethnicity and nationalism; birth, health, and reproduction; religion; sex, work, and mobility; violence; and sex education. The chapters highlight the breadth and depth of current scholarship on the region, past and present. The contributions present cutting-edge research treating each of the East Central European countries on its own terms and contextualizing sexual meanings, practices, and dynamics in relation to the specific ways they have been shaped, experienced, represented, and contested in the lives of people across these territories. In doing so, the book underscores the differences in the region’s trajectories of sexuality and sexual politics from those of not only the West but also Russia/USSR and (former) Yugoslavia across the long twentieth century. Written by a multidisciplinary...

IMPULSANDO LA HISTORIA, DESDE LA HISTORIA DE LAS MUJERES

Autor: Díaz SÁnchez, Pilar , Franco Rubio, Gloria , Fuente PÉrez, María JesÚs

Número de Páginas: 488

El vector fundamental sobre el que se ha organizado la visión de la Historia de la Mujeres sigue la línea inciada en la Ilustración, que preconiza la aplicación de los derechos universales en sentido estricto, es decir, en igualdad entre todos los seres humanos. De ahí que lo que se busca es no hacer una historia segregada, sino una historia integradora en consonancia con este fin que no es otro que hacer una historia total, que incluya a hombres y mujeres. Prevalecen, sin embargo, los textos en los que se "hace historia", stricto sensu, es decir trabajo de archivo, investigación, análisis y discurso narrativo, aunque también los hay que reflexionan o teorizan sobre la materia.

»Wenn die Chemie stimmt ..."

Autor: Lutz Niethammer , Silke Satjukow

Número de Páginas: 424

Die »Pille" und ihre globalen Auswirkungen. Die »Pille" veränderte die Welt. Im Osten wie im Westen entwickelte sie sich zum zentralen Symbol einer »sexuellen Revolution", stellte die überkommenen Normengefüge in Frage und die Machtverhältnisse der Geschlechter auf den Kopf - mit weitreichenden Folgen. Ihre Markteinführung Anfang der sechziger Jahre geriet zu einer fundamentalen Herausforderung: nicht nur für die Frauen und Männer auf allen Kontinenten, für ihr Sexualleben und für ihre Familienplanung. Herausgefordert fühlten sich auch die Hüter traditioneller Werte in Politik, Religion und Kultur. Manche Gesellschaften hießen das Pharmazeutikum der Moderne willkommen, andere verweigerten sich strikt.

Intimate Politics

Autor: Cassia Roth , Diana Paton

Número de Páginas: 276

This book places the intimate experience of fertility control at the heart of political and social approaches toward women’s bodies. Across the globe, women have always controlled their fertility through intimate efforts ultimately tied to larger political processes and gendered power dynamics. Women’s biological reproductive capabilities have been contested sites of power struggles, shaping the formation, rule, and dissolution of political regimes throughout history. Yet these intersections between the intimate and the political remain understudied in the historical literature. This book explores these questions from the perspective of multiple time periods, geographic locations, actors, and methods. Chapters analyze how women’s individual practices of fertility control, including contraception, abortion, and infanticide, alongside methods for achieving conception and birth, intersected with larger political, economic, and cultural trends. Others problematize the ideas of ‘control’ in history. What did it mean to ‘control one’s fertility’ in different historical periods and geographical regions? How did historical actors understand and practise what we now call...

Le catholicisme, une histoire mondiale

Autor: John Mcgreevy , Florian Michel , Anne-sophie Gache

Número de Páginas: 793

De la décapitation de Louis XVI au pontificat du pape François, John McGreevy revisite l'histoire du catholicisme - et c'est son originalité - à travers une approche mondiale. En effet, contrairement à l'historiographie courante, l'auteur ne se limite pas ici aux pays de vieille chrétienté. S'il évoque les projets missionnaires européens, il insiste aussi, par exemple, sur la lutte des catholiques africains en faveur de l'indépendance politique et religieuse, sur les espoirs des fidèles latino-américains et des catholiques sud-coréens pour plus de justice et de démocratie, et sur les circulations des modèles et des dévotions catholiques à l'échelle mondiale.John McGreevy retrace cette histoire complexe et passionnante du catholicisme contemporain dans des récits vivants et documentés en faisant appel à des témoins connus ou non, dont, entre autres, le prêtre révolutionnaire mexicain Servando Teresa de Mier, le héros de l'émancipation irlandaise Daniel O'Connell, la religieuse soudanaise autrefois réduite en esclavage Joséphine Bakhita. On rencontre aussi le philosophe français Jacques Maritain, la philosophe juive allemande convertie au catholicisme...

Challenging Norms

Autor: Heidi Hein-kircher , Elisa-maria Hiemer , Denisa Nešťáková

Número de Páginas: 361

Access to reproductive healthcare, including abortions and family planning services, remains a deeply polarizing issue within contemporary Eastern Europe. Originally a question reserved for couples, this topic has since been elevated to the public realm through the emergence of modern nation states. Challenging Norms offers a geographically wide-ranging re-examination of family planning in twentieth-century Eastern Europe, interrogating the relationship between social attitudes to family planning and the forces of social, economic, and political modernization. In doing so, this volume highlights how these changes provide invaluable insights into ever-evolving societal norms and values.

Gender, Pleasure, and Violence

Autor: Agnieszka Kościańska

Número de Páginas: 267

Behind the Iron Curtain, the politics of sexuality and gender were, in many ways, more progressive than the West. While Polish citizens undoubtedly suffered under the oppressive totalitarianism of socialism, abortion was legal, clear laws protected victims of rape, and it was relatively easy to legally change one's gender. In Gender, Pleasure, and Violence, Agnieszka Kościańska reveals that sexologists—experts such as physicians, therapists, and educators—not only treated patients but also held sex education classes at school, published regular columns in the press, and authored highly popular sex manuals that sold millions of copies. Yet strict gender roles within the home meant that true equality was never fully within reach. Drawing on interviews, participant observation, and archival work, Kościańska shares how professions like sexologists defined the notions of sexual pleasure and sexual violence under these sweeping cultural changes. By tracing the study of sexual human behavior as it was developed and professionalized in Poland since the 1960s, Gender, Pleasure, and Violence explores how the collapse of socialism brought both restrictions in gender rights and new...

To See a Moose

Autor: Agnieszka Kościańska

Número de Páginas: 354

Guiding the reader through the development of sex education in Poland, Agnieszka Kościańska looks at how it has changed from the 19th century to the present day. The book compares how sex was described in school textbooks, including those scrapped by the communists for fear of offending religious sentiments, and explores how the Catholic church retained its power in Poland under various regimes. The book also identifies the women and men who changed the way sex was written about in the country, and how they established the field of Polish sex education.

Feminism, National Identity and European Integration in Modern Spain

Autor: Kathryn L. Mahaney

Número de Páginas: 225

This book explores the evolution of Spanish feminism in the context of European feminisms and institutions from the 1960s to recent times. Beginning with Sección Femenina, the official Francoist women's organization, Feminism, National Identity and European Integration in Modern Spain traces the interplay between Spanish women's policy and international policymaking. In some cases, as with the Sección Femenina-championed Law of Political Rights (Ley de Derechos) in 1961, Spanish women's policy at least appeared more progressive than what Western democracies offered – notable at a time when Spain was considered backward. After Franco's death in 1975, Spain's democratic transition seemingly consolidated forward-thinking women's policy with a Constitution that guaranteed equality of the sexes in 1978, and with the creation of a national bureau charged with crafting women's policy, the Instituto de la Mujer (Women's Institute), in 1983. Yet feminists found themselves marginalized in Spanish political decision-making, as Kathryn L. Mahaney argues so successfully in this study. Mahaney reveals that women ultimately influenced domestic policy not by acting within national networks but ...

The New Yugoslav Woman

Autor: Branka Bogdan

Número de Páginas: 254

From 1945 to 1989, the Yugoslav state connected its claims of progressive politics and gender equality to its support of free healthcare, sex education and contraception, and laws that supported reproductive choice. Yugoslav men and women internalized these messages, proclaiming their homeland's superior care for its citizens in comparison to postwar Europe and the United States. Even as Yugoslav women faced stigma and abuse for their usage of contraceptives and medical practitioners grappled with new regulations and technology alongside personal ideologies, Yugoslavs celebrated their own reformation into "new" politically minded citizens who carefully navigated tradition and modernity as they reconstructed the nation. The New Yugoslav Woman provides a social and cultural history of how Yugoslav communists used reproductive regulation to build a platform of socialism through self-management and to position the country as a conduit between the global North and South. Author Branka Bogdan traces reproduction as a central facet of socialist Yugoslavia's state formation through the nation's laws, medical infrastructure, technological growth, and state-run sex education programs....

The Personal of the Political

Autor: Marek Wojtaszek , Elżbieta H. Oleksy , Aleksandra M. Różalska

Número de Páginas: 279

In an era of the radicalization of political ideologies in Europe, long-lasting societal remnants of the economic breakdown, and the neoliberalist consolidation of capitalist values, it is ethically relevant to critically reconceptualise the meaning and role of European feminisms and the challenges they have to confront today, both locally and transnationally. In the face of ubiquitous beliefs about feminism having exhausted itself, such a rethinking of the place and priorities of feminist politics within and outside academia is urgently needed. The popularization of the so-called faux-feminisms, assuming attained emancipation in the present-day neoliberal environment of advanced capitalism, calls for close examination and creative counter-strategies. Bearing in mind that the patterns of oppression still prevail, becoming even more and more insidious and complex, it is all the more necessary to identify, scrutinize, and contest the vicissitudes of the dominant apparatus of control and subjugation, and to demystify the purportedly gender-inclusive operations of the regime. As such, the book seeks to renew an academic and political interest in the epistemological tradition of...

Responsible Pleasure

Autor: Caroline Rusterholz

Número de Páginas: 358

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. The period between the 1960s and the 1990s has traditionally been associated with sexual liberation and a growing sense of permissiveness in Britain, during which cultural and social norms of young people's sexuality went through a dramatic shift. Using the Brook Advisory Centre (Brook) as a case study, Responsible Pleasure examines how and why this occurred, providing a socio-cultural history of youth sexuality in Britain over these three decades. It focuses on Brook as a pioneering sexual health charity operating on the cusp of voluntary and state-financed sectors. From the opening of its first centre in London, followed by other centres including Birmingham (1966), Bristol (1968), and Edinburgh (1968), to the present day, Brook has been a major provider of contraceptive advice and sexual counselling to unmarried people and teenagers. It pioneered an initiative that would form the primary model for the provision of advice on contraception for teenagers...

The Battle to Control Female Fertility in Modern Ireland

Autor: Mary E. Daly

Número de Páginas: 347

The battle for legal contraception challenged key tenets of Irish identity: Catholicism, large families, traditional gender roles, and sexual puritanism. It is a story of gender, religion, social change, and failing efforts to reaffirm Irish moral exceptionalism.

Gendered Drugs and Medicine

Autor: Teresa Ortiz-gomez , María Jesús Santesmases

Número de Páginas: 264

Drugs are considered to be healers and harmers, wonder substances and knowledge makers; objects that impact on social hierarchies, health practices and public policies. As a collective endeavour, this book focuses on the ways that gender, along with race/ethnicity and class, influence the design, standardisation and circulation of drugs throughout several highly medicalised countries throughout the twentieth century and until the twenty-first. Fourteen authors from different European and non-European countries analyse the extent to which the dominant ideas and values surrounding masculinity and femininity have contributed to shape the research, prescription and use of drugs by women and men within particular social and cultural contexts. New and lesser-known, gender-specific issues in lifestyles and social practices associated with pharmaceutical technologies are analysed, as is the manner in which they intervene in life experiences such as reproduction, sexual desire, childbirth, depression and happiness. The processes of prescribing, selling, marketing and accepting or forbidding drugs is also examined, as is the contribution of gendered medical practices to the medicalisation...

The Circulation of Penicillin in Spain

Autor: María Jesús Santesmases

Número de Páginas: 246

This book reconstructs the early circulation of penicillin in Spain, a country exhausted by civil war (1936–1939), and oppressed by Franco’s dictatorship. Embedded in the post-war recovery, penicillin’s voyages through time and across geographies – professional, political and social – were both material and symbolic. This powerful antimicrobial captivated the imagination of the general public, medical practice, science and industry, creating high expectations among patients, who at times experienced little or no effect. Penicillin’s lack of efficacy against some microbes fueled the search for new wonder drugs and sustained a decades-long research agenda built on the post-war concept of development through scientific and technological achievements. This historical reconstruction of the social life of penicillin between the 1940s and 1980s – through the dictatorship to democratic transition – explores political, public, medical, experimental and gender issues, and the rise of antibiotic resistance.

4th International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science : Barcelona, 18-20 November 2010 : hand programme / hosted by Societat Catalana d'Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica ; [edited by Miquel Terreu i Gascon]

Autor: International Conference Of The European Society For The History Of Science (4th : 2010 : Barcelona)

Número de Páginas: 70

Protective Practices

Autor: Jessica Borge

Número de Páginas: 321

From humble beginnings wholesaling at a small tobacconist-hairdresser shop in 1915, the London Rubber Company rapidly became the UK's biggest postwar producer and exporter of disposable rubber condoms. A first-mover and innovator, the company's continuous product development and strong brands (including Durex) allowed it to dominate supply to the retail trade and family planning clinics, leading it to intercede in the burgeoning women's market. When oral contraceptives came along, however, the company was caught in a bind between defending condoms against the pill and claiming a segment of the new birth control market for itself. In this first major study on the company, Jessica Borge shows how, despite the "unmentionable" status of condoms that inhibited advertising in the early twentieth century, aggressive business practices were successfully deployed to protect the monopoly and squash competition. Through close, evidence-based examination of LRC's first fifty years, encompassing its most challenging decades, the 1950s and 1960s, as well as an overview of later years including the AIDS crisis, Borge argues that the story of the modern disposable condom in Britain is really the...

Contraception and Modern Ireland

Autor: Laura Kelly

Número de Páginas: 379

Contraception was the subject of intense controversy in twentieth-century Ireland. Banned in 1935 and stigmatised by the Catholic Church, it was the focus of some of the most polarised debates before and after its legalisation in 1979. This is the first comprehensive, dedicated history of contraception in Ireland from the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922 to the 1990s. Drawing on the experiences of Irish citizens through a wide range of archival sources and oral history, Laura Kelly provides insights into the lived experiences of those negotiating family planning, alongside the memories of activists who campaigned for and against legalisation. She highlights the influence of the Catholic Church's teachings and legal structures on Irish life showing how, for many, sex and contraception were obscured by shame. Yet, in spite of these constraints, many Irish women and men showed resistance in accessing contraceptive methods. This title is also available as Open Access.

Cross-National Public Opinion about Homosexuality

Autor: Amy Adamczyk

Número de Páginas: 304

Public opinion about homosexuality varies substantially around the world. While residents in some nations have embraced gay rights as human rights, people in many other countries find homosexuality unacceptable. What creates such big differences in attitudes? This book shows that cross-national differences in opinion can be explained by the strength of democratic institutions, the level of economic development, and the religious context of the places where people live. Amy Adamczyk uses survey data from almost ninety societies, case studies of various countries, content analysis of newspaper articles, and in-depth interviews to examine how demographic and individual characteristics influence acceptance of homosexuality.

The Age of Addiction

Autor: David T. Courtwright

Número de Páginas: 337

“A mind-blowing tour de force that unwraps the myriad objects of addiction that surround us...Intelligent, incisive, and sometimes grimly entertaining.” —Rod Phillips, author of Alcohol: A History “A fascinating history of corporate America’s efforts to shape our habits and desires.” —Vox We live in an age of addiction, from compulsive gaming and shopping to binge eating and opioid abuse. Sugar can be as habit-forming as cocaine, researchers tell us, and social media apps are deliberately hooking our kids. But what can we do to resist temptations that insidiously rewire our brains? A renowned expert on addiction, David Courtwright reveals how global enterprises have both created and catered to our addictions. The Age of Addiction chronicles the triumph of what he calls “limbic capitalism,” the growing network of competitive businesses targeting the brain pathways responsible for feeling, motivation, and long-term memory. “Compulsively readable...In crisp and playful prose and with plenty of needed humor, Courtwright has written a fascinating history of what we like and why we like it, from the first taste of beer in the ancient Middle East to opioids in West...

Biopolitics in Central and Eastern Europe in the 20th Century

Autor: Barbara Klich-kluczewska , Joachim Von Puttkamer , Immo Rebitschek

Número de Páginas: 310

The field of biopolitics encompasses issues from health and hygiene, birth rates, fertility and sexuality, life expectancy and demography to eugenics and racial regimes. This book is the first to provide a comprehensive view on these issues for Central and Eastern Europe in the twentieth century. The cataclysms of imperial collapse, World War(s) and the Holocaust but also the rise of state socialism after 1945 provided extraordinary and distinct conditions for the governing of life and death. The volume collects the latest research and empirical studies from the region to showcase the diversity of biopolitical regimes in their regional and global context – from hunger relief for Hungarian children after the First World War to abortion legislation in communist Poland. It underlines the similarities as well, demonstrating how biopolitical strategies in this area often revolved around the notion of an endangered nation; and how ideological schemes and post-imperial experiences in Eastern Europe further complicate a 'western' understanding of democratic participatory and authoritarian repressive biopolitics. The new geographical focus invites scholars and students of social and...

Debates Around Abortion in the Global North

Autor: Fabienne Portier-le Cocq

Número de Páginas: 177

By means of a historical, legal and scientific approach, this book identifies the issues, progress and setbacks in the right for women to access abortion in various countries of the Global North. The book provides insights on the past, present and potential actions and struggles in the future about continuing to have the right to procure an abortion. Rites and rituals in order to better understand the practices of Asian countries, such as China, Japan and Taiwan, permeate discussions and debates. The volume presents the repercussions of the Covid-19 pandemic on access to abortion healthcare services and abortion, and the innovative initiatives and schemes designed and implemented. The latter encourages health professionals and decision-makers to reflect on the ‘good practices’ and retain and develop over the long term. This edited collection is intended for academics and students across the social sciences and healthcare sector, members of the legal profession, healthcare professionals, activists, policy-makers, and any stakeholders working for and caring about women’s reproductive rights and abortion rights.

Offshore Attachments

Autor: Chelsea Schields

Número de Páginas: 304

"In this highly original work, historian Chelsea Schields illuminates how the contested management of sex and race transformed the Caribbean into a crucial site in the global oil economy. By the mid-twentieth century, the Dutch islands of Curaçao and Aruba housed the world's largest oil refineries. To bolster this massive industrial experiment, oil corporations and political authorities offshored intimacy, circumventing laws regulating sex, reproduction, and the family in a bid to maximize profits and turn Caribbean subjects into citizens. Offshore Attachments reveals that, from boom to bust, Caribbean people challenged and embraced efforts to alter intimate behaviors in service of the energy economy, molding the industry from the ground up. Moving from Caribbean oil towns to European metropolises and examining such issues as sex work, contraception, kinship, and the constitution of desire, Schields narrates a surprising story of how racialized concern with sex shaped hydrocarbon industries as the age of oil met the end of empire"--

The Schism of ’68

Autor: Alana Harris

Número de Páginas: 385

This volume explores the critical reactions and dissenting activism generated in the summer of 1968 when Pope Paul VI promulgated his much-anticipated and hugely divisive encyclical, Humanae Vitae, which banned the use of ‘artificial contraception’ by Catholics. Through comparative case studies of fourteen different European countries, it offers a wealth of new data about the lived religious beliefs and practices of ordinary people – as well as theologians interrogating ‘traditional teachings’ – in areas relating to love, marriage, family life, gender roles and marital intimacy. Key themes include the role of medical experts, the media, the strategies of progressive Catholic clergy and laity, and the critical part played by hugely differing Church-State relations. In demonstrating the Catholic Church’s important (and overlooked) contribution to the refashioning of the sexual landscape of post-war Europe, it makes a critical intervention into a growing historiography exploring the 1960s and offers a close interrogation of one strand of religious change in this tumultuous decade.

Catching Fire

Autor: Beth Sundstrom , Cara Delay

Número de Páginas: 265

For more than a generation, activists and advocacy organizations have been instrumental in agitating for women's health reforms in Ireland. Over the last decade, Irish activists have experienced a number of victories to improve women's health, most notably in 2018 when Ireland passed a referendum to repeal the Eighth amendment, a constitutional ban on abortion. After years of unfavorable laws for women and successive scandals in women's health, Ireland has taken transformative steps to redefine social norms surrounding women's health and reproduction. The case of Ireland's women's health reform offers important insight toward furthering the modern global movement for women's autonomy. Catching Fire narrates the rise of women's health activism in Ireland within a global reproductive justice framework, which aims to understand and dismantle the systems of social inequality that shape, oppress, and restrict reproductive rights and bodily autonomy. The volume focuses on attempts by Irish healthcare reformers and activists to improve Irish women's access to essential healthcare services and links key developments in Irish history to reproductive advocacy efforts in America and beyond....

Un aborto, 8000 pesetas

Autor: Paula Boira

Número de Páginas: 224

Cada año alrededor de 100.000 mujeres interrumpen sus embarazos de manera voluntaria y legal en España. Durante las cuatro décadas de franquismo, sin embargo, la práctica del aborto fue ilegal y perseguida. Cientos de miles de mujeres tuvieron que hacerlo a escondidas con perejil, ruda u objetos punzantes que introducían en sus úteros, poniendo en riesgo su salud y perdiendo, en muchas ocasiones, su vida. En los primeros años de la Transición, un grupo de mujeres y hombres armados con botes de Nescafé y bombas de bicicleta pusieron al alcance de todas las españolas el método más seguro para interrumpir el embarazo conocido entonces. Hasta 1985, año de la despenalización del aborto, sus redes clandestinas realizaron más de 15 000 intervenciones. A pesar de que se jugaban la cárcel, estos idealistas lucharon por garantizar los derechos reproductivos y mejorar la vida de las mujeres. En este libro, Paula Boira Nacher recoge la hermosa historia de solidaridad que crearon estas redes con la voz de sus protagonistas, a la vez que rescata las memorias no narradas de las mujeres que abortaron durante el franquismo. SOBRE LA AUTORA Paula Boira Nacher (Castelló de la Plana, ...

Everyday Postsocialism in Eastern Europe

Autor: Jill Massino , Markus Wien

Número de Páginas: 213

The collapse of state socialism ushered in dramatic political and economic change, producing new freedoms and opportunities, but also new challenges and disappointments. Focusing on laborers, professionals, youth, women, sexual minorities, foreign students, and emigrants, Everyday Postsocialism in Eastern Europe explores these multifaceted changes and people’s varied experiences of them. The featured narratives complicate hegemonic representations of transformation, revealing ruptures and continuities, progress and reversals. Highlighting the multi-directionality of change over the last thirty years, the book reappraises 1989 as an epochal event for all.

Catholicism: A Global History from the French Revolution to Pope Francis

Autor: John T. Mcgreevy

Número de Páginas: 334

A magisterial history of the centuries-long conflict between “progress” and “tradition” in the world’s largest international institution. The story of Roman Catholicism has never followed a singular path. In no time period has this been more true than over the last two centuries. Beginning with the French Revolution, extending to the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s, and concluding with present-day crises, John T. McGreevy chronicles the dramatic upheavals and internal divisions shaping the most multicultural, multilingual, and global institution in the world. Through powerful individual stories and sweeping birds-eye views, Catholicism provides a mesmerizing assessment of the Church’s complex role in modern history: both shaper and follower of the politics of nation states, both conservator of hierarchies and evangelizer of egalitarianism. McGreevy documents the hopes and ambitions of European missionaries building churches and schools in all corners of the world, African Catholics fighting for political (and religious) independence, Latin American Catholics attracted to a theology of liberation, and Polish and South Korean Catholics demanding democratic...

Mujer, moral y franquismo

Autor: Lucía Prieto Borrego

Número de Páginas: 354

Una vez acabada la guerra, se desarrolla un vasto programa de control social cuyo principal instrumento fue el Patronato de Protección a la Mujer. La institución creada en 1941 encaminó sus objetivos a la lucha contra la prostitución y por tanto a la erradicación de la enfermedad venérea. En realidad fue un mecanismo dedicado a la corrección y castigo de las conductas que pudieran entorpecer las aspiraciones demográficas del Régimen. El estudio realizado sobre la actuación del Patronato en la ciudad de Málaga entre 1941 y 1971 demuestra que la institución proyectó su intervención en conductas transgresoras de la moral católica pero sin ningún tipo de relación con la actividad prostitucional. (Fuente: editor).

Las retóricas de la moralidad en la frontera

Autor: Areli Veloz Contreras

Número de Páginas: 180

This book contains a unique version of the history of Tijuana. Areli Velox questions "The Black Legend" - which presents the city as a place of vice and perversion - and also criticizes its idealization as a "land of opportunities." The author proposes a procedural analysis starting with the nationalist projects that, since the first half of the twentieth century, frame the disputes around the mandates of morality, sex and sexuality. This analysis constitutes a contribution to understanding the power relations, the politics of the body, and the categories of differentiation (by class, gender, and immigration status) that historically construct Tijuana, its symbolisms, and its ways of life. The book claims the power of feminist theories to build knowledge and reflexivity about the forms of social inequality (not only that which concerns the condition of women). Although the text refers to Tijuana, the feminist perspective that it proposes is useful to understand the historical experiences of subalternity - seen from the working class - and to understand cities and their borders as producers of social differentiation.

La sociedad civil andaluza

Autor: Teresa María Ortega López

Número de Páginas: 176

El volumen La sociedad civil andaluza, punta de lanza de la democracia y la autonomía, coordinado por la profesora de Historia Contemporánea de la Universidad de Granada, Teresa María Ortega López, viene, precisamente a cubrir este vacío. Publicado como el número 13 de la colección de Cuadernos de Andalucía en la Historia Contemporánea, esta obra pone el foco en otros sujetos de acción política contra el régimen franquista en Andalucía. Porque la desmovilización y apatía propiciada por el régimen franquista no rompió el empuje de determinados grupos de la sociedad civil. Así, al tradicional foco de contestación social encarnado por el movimiento obrero, se sumaron el movimiento estudiantil, el movimiento feminista, la Iglesia de base (a raíz de las transformaciones internas provocadas por el Concilio Vaticano II) y el movimiento vecinal. La labor de estos movimientos sociales resultó clave para impedir la pervivencia de la dictadura y favorecer la extensión de una cultura democrática. A ellos se sumaron otros realidades políticas y sociales, como el resurgimiento del andalucismo político o las grandes migraciones a Cataluña y otros destinos, que también...

Kvartalʹnyĭ zhurnal istorii nauki i tekhniki

Número de Páginas: 632

Magical Geometry

Autor: Shan Ben Tu Shu

Número de Páginas: 232

Geometry has become a key element of the visual language of contemporary art and design, with designers often leaning to its striking, distinctive look to convey both energy and elegant simplicity. Magical Geometry sources projects from outstanding design teams from around the world to show how the best designers are utilizing striking geometric visuals. Projects featured include packaging, posters, business cards, visual brand identities and interior design, that all stand out while remaining on-trend, using geometric patterns and shapes in bold new ways to enrich their overall design.

Anticoncepción, mujeres y género

Autor: Teresa Ortíz Gómez , Agata Ignaziuk

Número de Páginas: 275

Pocos medicamentos existen que superen en influencia social a la píldora que, desde mediados del siglo veinte, ha ayudado a redefinir el significado de la anticoncepción y de la sexualidad. Este libro estudia cómo se introdujo, se usó y se explicó, entre 1960 y 1980, en dos países sometidos a sendas dictaduras pero ambos con una fuerte influencia católica. Para ello examina, desde la historia social y cultural y la historia de género, los discursos, los debates y las prácticas generados de forma simultánea en el mercado farmacéutico, la profesión médica, los medios de comunicación y entre las mujeres usuarias, y lo hace de manera comparada entre ambos mundos. Se adentra así en una fascinante indagación sobre la memoria y sobre las ideologías y jerarquías construidas sobre la desigualdad social de las mujeres, a la vez que reivindica la agencia de estas sobre su cuerpo.

Szkoła czterech wieków

Número de Páginas: 350

Narodowe Siły Zbrojne na Lubelszczyźnie 1944-1947

Autor: Mirosław Piotrowski

Número de Páginas: 414

Wspomnieniem pisane

Número de Páginas: 278