The Politics of Duplicity: Controlling Reproduction in Ceausescu's Romania - Couverture souple

Kligman, Gail

 
9780520210752: The Politics of Duplicity: Controlling Reproduction in Ceausescu's Romania
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0520210751 ISBN 13 : 9780520210752
Editeur : University of California Press, 1998

Synopsis

The political hypocrisy and personal horrors of one of the most repressive anti-abortion regimes in history came to the world's attention soon after the fall of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. Photographs of orphans with vacant eyes, sad faces, and wasted bodies circled the globe, as did alarming maternal mortality statistics and heart-breaking details of a devastating infant AIDS epidemic. Gail Kligman's chilling ethnography-of the state and of the politics of reproduction-is the first in-depth examination of this extreme case of political intervention into the most intimate aspects of everyday life.

Ceausescu's reproductive policies, among which the banning of abortion was central, affected the physical and emotional well-being not only of individual men, women, children, and families but also of society as a whole. Sexuality, intimacy, and fertility control were fraught with fear, which permeated daily life and took a heavy moral toll as lying and dissimulation transformed both individuals and the state. This powerful study is based on moving interviews with women and physicians as well as on documentary and archival material. In addition to discussing the social implications and human costs of restrictive reproductive legislation, Kligman explores the means by which reproductive issues become embedded in national and international agendas. She concludes with a review of the lessons the rest of the world can learn from Romania's tragic experience.

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À propos de l?auteur

Gail Kligman is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and author of The Wedding of the Dead: Ritual, Poetics, and Popular Culture in Transylvania (California, 1988).

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Éditeur
University of California Press
Date d'édition
1998
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0520210751
ISBN 13 
9780520210752
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
376
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780520210745: The Politics of Duplicity: Controlling Reproduction in Ceausescu's Romania

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ISBN 10 :  0520210743 ISBN 13 :  9780520210745
Editeur : University of California Press, 1998
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