Sexual Liberation, Socialist Style

Kateřina Lišková teaches gender studies and sociology at Masaryk University, Czech Republic, and works as a Fellow at Technische Universität Berlin, Germany. In the past, she was affiliated with Columbia University and the New School for Social Research.

• Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Sweeping changes in sexuality across East Central Europe; 2. The public family: collectivized equality in the long 1950s; 3. The female orgasm: from treating infertility to managing pleasure; 4. The privatized family: atomized hierarchy during Normalization; 5. Male deviance: now you see them, now you don't; Conclusion; Primary sources; Bibliography; Index.

'An absolutely gorgeous book which transforms our understanding of the alternate modernity that was the Eastern bloc. Flush with stunning primary source material and dazzlingly original analysis, it challenges us to reconsider assumptions about 'psy-entific' expertise in conditions of authoritarianism - but even more to recognize ordinary citizens' extraordinary creativity and agency in shaping their intimate lives.' Dagmar Herzog, author of Cold War Freud: Psychoanalysis in an Age of Catastrophes