Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe, Marburg; Heidi Hein-Kircher (Web)
Time: 12.07.2021
Venue: Virtual space, via Marburg
Social change caused by industrialization and urbanization as well as by cultural and political modernization provoked a re-configuration of family conceptions. The demand to determine the number of offspring became a major political claim of women’s rights movements before it became part of “normality” within family life. “Family planning” as a practice was hence a result of value changes caused by social changes: since then, it developed step-by-step from a significant individual practice to a human right. During social, political, and economic crises and periods of rapid social change, “family planning” has become a target of political attacks, for example as revealed by the new Polish anti-abortion law and discussion about sexual education.
Programm
10:00 am: Welcome: Heidi Hein-Kircher (Marburg)
10:15 am: Chair: Heidi Hein-Kircher
- Gábor Koloh (Szeged): Socioeconomic and Cultural Determinants of Family Planning in Southern Transdanubia (Hungary), 19th Century
- Filip Emanuel Schuffert (Gießen): Gieschewald – a New Village for Miners and their Families
10:45 am Break
11:00 am: Chair: Elisa-Maria Hiemer (Marburg)
- Dominika Kleinova (Pardubice): She-Wolves and Children of the Night: Birth Control and Family Planning from the Perspective of Prostitutes in the Interwar Czechoslovakia
- Sylwia Kuzma-Markowska (Warsaw): Conflicts and Interdependencies: Family Planning Narratives and Activisms in Interwar Poland
- Lemontzoglou Tryfonas (Athens): Revisiting the “Illegitimacy” Phenomenon: Evidence from the 20th Century Greek Censuses
11:45 pm Lunch Break
12:30 pm: Chair: Halyna Roshchyna (Hamburg)
- Eva Škorvanková (Bratislava): Family Planning in Slovakia 1939–1945 and its Ideological Influences