Routledge handbook of sexuality in East Central Europe

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kościańska, Agnieszka, editor.

Kurimay, Anita, editor.

Lišková, Kateřina, 1976- editor.

Renkin, Hadley Z., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex--Europe, Eastern.

Sex.

Sexual minorities--Europe, Eastern.

Sexual minorities.

Post-communism--Social aspects--Europe, Eastern.

Post-communism.

Sex--Europe, Central.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 470 pages)

Place of Publication:

Routledge, 2025

Contents:

Articulating LGB identities in socialist Czechoslovakia / Jaroslava Hasmanová Marhánková

5. A cross-border lesbian romance? The reception of Károly Makk's Another Way in Poland and Hungary / Monika Talarczyk

6. A brief history of Hungarian queer politics in the 20th and 21st centuries / Anita Kurimay and Hadley Z. Renkin

Section 2: Sexuality, family, marriage, and kinship. 7. Marriages and nations before World War II / Sándor Nagy

8. Socialist marriage and sexual satisfaction in Czechoslovakia and Hungary / Kateřina Lišková and Gábor Szegedi

9. Divorce during socialism in Czechoslovakia and women's equality / Kateřina Lišková

10. Egalitarian myth and its implementation by families of choice in Poland / Joanna Mizielińska

11. The father is a man, the mother is a woman? Notions of family within the Hungarian LGBTQ community / Rita Béres-Deák

Section 3: Sexuality, race/ethnicity & nationalism. 12. Eugenics and ethnic nationalism in interwar Hungary / Anita Kurimay

13. Some babies are better than others: Selective pronatalism, ethnicity and sexuality politics behind the Iron Curtain / Radka Dudová and Hana Hašková

14. The role of sex education in Russian propaganda: The Czech Republic / Lucie Jarkovská

15. Race on trial: Understanding sexualized racism in socialist and postsocialist Poland / Agnieszka Kościańska

16. Looking for heterosexuality in the imaginary East: The role of sexualities for the illiberal Hungarian project / Zsuzsanna Varga and Katrin Kremmler

Section 4: Birth control, reproduction, health. 17. Transnational aspects of family planning: Interwar and state-socialist Poland / Sylwia Kuźma-Markowska

18. Limitations, innovations, and imitations: Chemical contraceptives in communist Poland / Agata Ignaciuk

19. Childbirth and parent education in the state-socialist Czechoslovakia / Ema Hrešanová

20. "I don't go into this issue with my patients": Motherhood and sexuality of women with Turner Syndrome in Poland / Magdalena Radkowska-Walkowicz

21. Risk, responsibility and pleasure: HIV politics in Poland / Agata Dziuban and Justyna Struzik

Section 5: Religion.

22. Masturbating in Yiddish: Jewish bodies and voices from Eastern Europe / Zohar Eeda Weiman-Kelman

23. Conflict or a united front? Sexuality between Church and State in postwar Poland / Natalia Jarska

24. The World Congress of Families / Kevin Moss

25. The debate on homosexuality in Poland during the 2000s and the lord-boor game / Dorota Hall

Section 6: Sex work and mobility. 26. Wayward daughters and runaway servants: The lost girls of Central Europe and the construction of the trafficking trope / Keely Stauter-Halsted and Nancy M. Wingfeld

27. Sex and military: Soldiers, prostitution, venereal diseases in the Great War in Hungary / Judit Forrai

28. Italian men, Western goods and transactional sex during the long 1960s in Hungary / Priska Komaromi

29. A profitable enterprise? Sex work, economic emancipation, and transnational mobility in 1970s and 1980s Poland / Anna Dobrowolska

30. Cruising communist Poland in contemporary Polish art practices / Aleksandra Gajowy

31. Between East and West and digital elsewhere: Polish queer migrants making sense of Brexit / Lukasz Szulc

Section 7: Sexualized violence. 32. Sexuality, imprisonment, and violence in counterrevolutionary Hungary, 1919-1922 / Emily R. Gioielli

33. Operation Hyacinth and the history of state violence in the People's Republic of Poland / Jȩdrzej Burszta

34. "Fair game for stigmatization due to his predilections": Homophobia and sexism in the criminological discourse of rape / Agnieszka Kościańska

35. Do we care? Intergenerational discussion about the first campaign against gender-based violence in Slovakia / Zuzana Mad̕arová

36. Blind justice: Hungarian policies on violence against women and girls / Katalin Fábián

Section 8: Sex education.

37. Sexuality and gender in school-based sex education in Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland in the 1970s and 1980s / Kateřina Lišková, Natalia Jarska, and Gábor Szegedi

38. "The right to citizenship": Sexology, homosexuality and the discourse of rights in socialist Poland in the 1970s / Agnieszka Kościańska

39. Self-education as activism: The case of trans persons in Poland / Maria Dębińska

40. Who is responsible for sex education? The divisions of family and school, private and public after 1989 in Slovakia / Veronika Valkovičová and Adriana Jesenková

41. Sexual minorities in post-socialist sex education in Hungary: 20 years of an LGBT+ school programme / Dorottya Rédai.

Notes:

Edited by Agnieszka Kościańska, Anita Kurimay, Kateřina Lišková, and Hadley Z. Renkin.

ISBN:

1-04-034129-2

1-003-20476-7

9781003204763