Replacing the dead : the politics of reproduction in the postwar Soviet Union / Mie Nakachi.
Series: Oxford scholarship online: Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2021Description: 1 online resource (348 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780190635169 (ebook) :Subject(s): Abortion -- Soviet Union | Reproductive rights -- Soviet Union | Women's rights -- Soviet Union | Women -- Soviet Union -- Social conditionsAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780190635138DDC classification: 362.1988800947 LOC classification: HQ767.5.S65 | N35 2021Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: In 1955, the Soviet Union became the first country in the world to re-legalise abortion on the principle of women's rights to abortion. How could this happen in Stalinist society which prohibited feminist movements? 'Replacing the Dead' finds an answer in previously secret archives that document the difficult decade after World War II, which killed 27 million Soviet citizens and the government's policy to increase fertility by promoting out-of-wedlock births. The result was an abortion battle between women, government, and Soviet legal and medical professionals that has continued for decades.| Item type | Current library | Class number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Also issued in print: 2021.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
In 1955, the Soviet Union became the first country in the world to re-legalise abortion on the principle of women's rights to abortion. How could this happen in Stalinist society which prohibited feminist movements? 'Replacing the Dead' finds an answer in previously secret archives that document the difficult decade after World War II, which killed 27 million Soviet citizens and the government's policy to increase fertility by promoting out-of-wedlock births. The result was an abortion battle between women, government, and Soviet legal and medical professionals that has continued for decades.
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