relation: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/2630/
title: Abortion policy and social suffering: the objectification of Romanian women's bodies under communism (1966–1989)
creator: Andrei, Andreea
creator: Branda, Alina
subject: D839 Post-war History, 1945 on
subject: DK Russia. Soviet Union. Former Soviet Republics
subject: HQ The family. Marriage. Woman
description:  The aim of this article is to address why and how the solution to the demographic decline envisaged by the Romanian communist state did not alleviate its repercussions on society, but rather generated untoward social, moral and gender effects that exacerbated the existing social pathology. This study centres on the social suffering experienced by Romanian women, revealing the close connection between their predicament and the state's flawed approach to the problem and focusing on their lived experiences of oppression, pain, shame and illness. Their suffering is framed as a response to forms of loss: the loss of health, the loss of dignity, and the loss of self. 
publisher: Taylor & Francis
date: 2015
type: Article
type: PeerReviewed
identifier:   Andrei, Andreea and Branda, Alina  Abortion policy and social suffering: the objectification of Romanian women's bodies under communism (1966–1989).  Women's History Review, 24 (6).  pp. 881-899.  ISSN 0961-2025      (2015)  
relation: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2015.1013304 
relation: 10.1080/09612025.2015.1013304