{"id":10684,"date":"2018-07-10T16:10:02","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T16:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=10684"},"modified":"2018-07-10T16:16:36","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T16:16:36","slug":"katerina-liskova-sexual-liberation-socialist-style-communist-czechoslovakia-and-the-science-of-desire-1945-1989","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=10684","title":{"rendered":"Kate\u0159ina Li\u0161kov\u00e1, \u201eSexual Liberation, Socialist Style: Communist Czechoslovakia and the Science of Desire, 1945\u20131989\u201c"},"content":{"rendered":"

S obzirom na doktorski rad Zrinke Miljan \u201eSeksualna revolucija u Hrvatskoj 1960-ih i 1970-ih godina\u201c, upu\u0107ujemo na upravo objavljenu knjigu o toj problematici na primjeru \u010cehoslova\u010dke, sugeriraju\u0107i time da se i hrvatska historiografija pridru\u017eila opse\u017enoj me\u0111unarodnoj literaturi o globalnom fenomenu seksualne revolucije.<\/p>\n

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Sexual Liberation, Socialist Style<\/strong><\/p>\n

Communist Czechoslovakia and the Science of Desire, 1945\u20131989<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Kate\u0159ina Li\u0161kov\u00e1, Masarykova Univerzita v Brn\u011b, Czech Republic<\/p>\n

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press<\/p>\n

Online publication date: May 2018<\/p>\n

Print publication year: 2018<\/p>\n

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https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/books\/sexual-liberation-socialist-style\/ECEFAB809A019B2F7D63267B9D95CEAD<\/a><\/p>\n

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Book description<\/p>\n

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This is the first account of sexual liberation in Eastern Europe during the Cold War. Kate\u0159ina Li\u0161kov\u00e1 reveals how, in the case of Czechoslovakia, important aspects of sexuality were already liberated during the 1950s – abortion was legalized, homosexuality decriminalized, the female orgasm came into experts’ focus – and all that was underscored by an emphasis on gender equality. However, with the coming of Normalization, gender discourses reversed and women were to aspire to be caring mothers and docile wives. Good sex was to cement a lasting marriage and family. In contrast to the usual Western accounts highlighting the importance of social movements to sexual and gender freedom, here we discover, through the analysis of rich archival sources covering forty years of state socialism in Czechoslovakia, how experts, including sexologists, demographers, and psychologists, advised the state on population development, marriage and the family to shape the most intimate aspects of people’s lives.<\/p>\n

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Reviews<\/p>\n

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\u2018An 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 \u2018psy-entific’ expertise in conditions of authoritarianism – but even more to recognize ordinary citizens’ extraordinary creativity and agency in shaping their intimate lives.’<\/p>\n

Dagmar Herzog – author of Cold War Freud: Psychoanalysis in an Age of Catastrophes<\/p>\n

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‘Li\u0161kov\u00e1 is the first to write the history of Czechoslovakia\u2019s sexual revolution. This enlightening, ambitious and original book challenges many of our preconceived notions about life under state socialism.’<\/p>\n

Melissa Feinberg – author of Curtain of Lies: The Battle over Truth in Stalinist Eastern Europe<\/p>\n

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‘Ambitious in its scale and prodigiously researched, this book will be a must for anyone who wants to know more about histories of gender and sexual freedom in twentieth-century Europe.’<\/p>\n

Dan Healey – author of Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia: The Regulation of Sexual and Gender Dissent<\/p>\n

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‘Li\u0161kov\u00e1 challenges some of the most basic assumptions about the social organization of sexuality by showing that \u2018sexual liberation\u2019 in Czechoslovakia came from above, through the discourses of experts and the practices of the state. Her account demolishes the convenient imagery of prudish communist officials attempting to surround sexuality with walls of silence and hypocrisy. Similarly, she does away with the myth that authentic liberation and agency can only come from below. This is a thought provoking book that should be read profitably by all those interested in the relations between expertise, the state and sexual practices.’<\/p>\n

Gil Eyal – author of Making Capitalism Without Capitalists: The New Ruling Elites in Eastern Europe<\/p>\n

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‘In a remarkable challenge to the familiar linear narrative of sexual emancipation, Li\u0161kov\u00e1 shows how an early egalitarian ethos celebrating the parity of men and women as the path to satisfaction reverted to a traditional patriarchal ideal of male superiority after the failed uprising of the Prague Spring. Highly recommended reading for anyone interested in non-totalitarian histories of the Eastern Bloc.’<\/p>\n

Kristen R. Ghodsee – author of Red Hangover: Legacies of Twentieth-Century Communism<\/p>\n

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Obranjeni doktorski radovi<\/p>\n

https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=10681<\/a><\/p>\n

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Franko Dota obranio doktorski rad \u201cJavna i politi\u010dka povijest mu\u0161ke homoseksualnosti u socijalisti\u010dkoj Hrvatskoj (1945.-1989.)\u201d<\/p>\n

https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=6154<\/a><\/p>\n

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