Challenging Norms

Heidi Hein-Kircher has been Director of Martin Opitz Library (Herne) and Professor at Bochum University since October 2024. Before, she was head of the Academic Forum at the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe. In her research, she focuses on gender and family history, urban history, historical security, and minorities studies, and on the emergence of modern values and norms in Eastern European societies since the nineteenth century. Her recent publications include the co-edited volumes, Consumption and Advertising in Eastern Europe and Russia in the Twentieth Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) and Historicizing the Mobility/Security Nexus and the Making of Order (Routledge, 2023).

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Challenging Norms: Family Planning as a Reflection of Social Change in Twentieth Century Eastern Europe. Introductory RemarksHeidi Hein-Kircher and Elisa-Maria HiemerChapter 1. Family Planning, Reproductive Decision-Making, Health Feminism: Changing Norms and Social Practices of Reproduction in the Twentieth CenturyIsabel HeinemannChapter 2. Conflicting Norms: The Evolvement of Fetal Rights vs. Reproductive Rights in a Transnational Perspective. The Cases of Ireland and PolandAnja TitzeOn the Stage: Negotiating the Intimate/PrivateChapter 3. “Mother, Think of Me”: Women and Mothers in the Upper Silesian Plebiscite PropagandaAllison RodriguezChapter 4. The Vicious Circle of Abortions. Family Planning in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1918–1941)Ivana DobrivjovićChapter 5. Wartime Sexual Violence and Its Consequences in the Catholic and Medical Postwar Discourses in Poland, 1945–1946Jakub GałęziowskiChapter 6. Revisiting the “Illegitimacy” Phenomenon: Evidence from the Twentieth-Century GreeceTryfonas LemontzoglouAgainst the Norms: Revisiting Family ConceptsChapter 7. Hungarian and German Childbearing in Nineteenth-Century South Transdanubia: A Fertility History of the Roman Catholic German Community of Mágocs and the Calvinist Hungarian Community of Vajszló (1791–1890)Gábor KolohChapter 8. Prostitution and Motherhood in the Twentieth Century in Czech LandsDominika KleinovaChapter 9. Sexuality, Reproductive Rights, and Partnership as Areas of Conflict in Post-War PolandMichael ZokChapter 10. From “Abortion Culture” to Family Planning. The Continuities and Discontinuities of Birth Control Regimes in Twentieth-Century HungaryFanni SvégelAcross Borders: Shaping the KnowledgeChapter 11. Confrontation and Dialogue: Family Planning Narratives and Activisms in Interwar PolandSylwia Kuzma-MarkowskaChapter 12. Family Planning in Slovakia 1939–1945 and its Ideological InfluencesEva ŠkorvankováChapter 13. Sovietization of Women in Lithuania: Representations of Motherhood and Family Planning in the Magazine Tarybine Moteris (1952-1989)Ieva BalčiūnėChapter 14. Navigating late USSR Family Planning: Scattered Narratives from Demography and MedicineNataliya Shok and Nadezhda BeliakovaConclusionAgata IgnaciukIndex