The Politics of Duplicity: Controlling Reproduction in Ceausescu’s Romania (Contraversions, Critical

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I think every single one of those American legislators and politicians should be forced to read this book, starting with this passage: Wade , Romania's recent history stands as a tragic and poignant lesson. Those who uphold absolute "moral" or political values as was the case in Romania over the all too real exigencies of daily life privilege ideology over lived experience. The fervent rhetorical defense of the sanctity of life denigrates the sanctity of the embodied self while eschewing any consideration of the empirical factors that constrain women's and families' childbearing and child-rearing possibilities.

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Recriminalizing abortion would further alter an already transformed war against the poor into a war against poor women in particular. Despite claims made by anti-abortion advocates, there is no empirical evidence suggesting that women seek abortions for frivolous or primarily selfish reasons.

Sep 01, Michelle rated it liked it Shelves: What do you get when you combine a country bent on increasing its population with a totalitarian surveillance state? In Ceausescu's regime, you get tragedy upon tragedy for the health and lives of women. Sure, in communist Romania they paid lip service towards gender equality, insisting that women were to be equal workforce participants, but there was a basic conflict between their rhetoric of liberation and policies of compulsory motherhood. In abortion was largely banned, with entreaties What do you get when you combine a country bent on increasing its population with a totalitarian surveillance state?

In abortion was largely banned, with entreaties that women have children in service to the state.

The Politics of Duplicity: Controlling Reproduction in Ceausescu's Romania

As a result, Romania had the highest maternal mortality rate by the s, mostly attributable to illegal abortions, as well epidemics of infant AIDS and abuse of institutionalized unwanted children and orphans. The Politics of Duplicity concerns these coercive reproductive policies "political demography" of the Ceausescu government from , and how women and doctors successfully and unsuccessfully circumvented the ban.

As an "ethnography of the state", it details how political demography fit into the overall structure of the communist government, with perhaps a bit too much detail on general policy concerns for my tastes. Unfortunately the public health data from this era are notoriously unreliable, so drawing conclusions about the extent of harm to the population is tenuous and Kligman does note this repeatedly. The best data come from women's stories of their illegal abortions, which provide glimpses into lives lived under constant invasion of privacy, threat of exposure or punishment, and duplicitous interactions.


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