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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Ohio University Press Polish and Polish-American studies seriesPublisher: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780821445174
  • 0821445170
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Politics of moralityDDC classification:
  • 320.08209438 23
LOC classification:
  • HQ1236.5.P7 M57 2015eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
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.
Summary: The Politics of Morality is an anthropological study of the expansion of power of the religious right in postsocialist Poland and its effects on individual rights and social mores.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)1044812

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Print version record.

The Politics of Morality is an anthropological study of the expansion of power of the religious right in postsocialist Poland and its effects on individual rights and social mores.

English.