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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797451503321

Autore

Mishtal Joanna

Titolo

The politics of morality : the church, the state, and reproductive rights in postsocialist Poland / / Joanna Mishtal

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens, Ohio : , : Ohio University Press, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

0-8214-4517-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Ohio University Press Polish and Polish-American studies series

Disciplina

320.08209438

Soggetti

Women - Political activity - Poland

Women's rights - Poland

Church and state - Poland

Reproductive rights - Poland

Abortion - Poland

Poland Politics and government 1989-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : women's rights and democratization: the Polish paradox -- "The church was helping us win freedom" : democratic transition and the return of God -- Restricting access to reproductive services : religious power and moral governance -- Women respond : feminist consciousness-raising and activism -- Confessions, Kolda rituals, and other surveillance -- Abortion, Polish style -- The "dying nation" and the postsocialist logics of declining motherhood -- Conclusion : the future of women's rights in Poland.