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creators_name: Andrei, Andreea
creators_name: Branda, Alina
creators_id: andreea.andrei@imtlucca.it
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title: Abortion policy and social suffering: the objectification of Romanian women's bodies under communism (1966–1989)
ispublished: pub
subjects: D839
subjects: DK
subjects: HQ
divisions: EIC
full_text_status: none
note: Published online: 04 Mar 2015
abstract:  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. 
date: 2015
date_type: published
publication: Women's History Review
volume: 24
number: 6
publisher: Taylor & Francis
pagerange: 881-899
id_number: 10.1080/09612025.2015.1013304
refereed: TRUE
issn: 0961-2025
official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2015.1013304 
citation:   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)