{"product_id":"the-new-yugoslav-woman-reproductive-regulation-in-socialist-yugoslavia-hardback-9780253074171","title":"The New Yugoslav Woman; Reproductive Regulation in Socialist Yugoslavia (Hardback) 9780253074171","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe New Yugoslav Woman\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eReproductive Regulation in Socialist Yugoslavia\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eBranka Bogdan (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780253074171\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 30 September 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e254 pages, 15 b\u0026amp;w illus., 2 b\u0026amp;w tables\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom 1945 to 1989, the Yugoslav state connected its claims of progressive politics and gender equality to its support of free healthcare, sex education and contraception, and laws that supported reproductive choice. Yugoslav men and women internalized these messages, proclaiming their homeland's superior care for its citizens in comparison to postwar Europe and the United States. Even as Yugoslav women faced stigma and abuse for their usage of contraceptives and medical practitioners grappled with new regulations and technology alongside personal ideologies, Yugoslavs celebrated their own reformation into \"new\" politically minded citizens who carefully navigated tradition and modernity as they reconstructed the nation.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe New Yugoslav Woman\u003c\/i\u003e provides a social and cultural history of how Yugoslav communists used reproductive regulation to build a platform of socialism through self-management and to position the country as a conduit between the global North and South. Author Branka Bogdan traces reproduction as a central facet of socialist Yugoslavia's state formation through the nation's laws, medical infrastructure, technological growth, and state-run sex education programs. Bringing this history to the present day with a discussion of more than two dozen interviews with Yugoslav patients and medical professionals, Bogdan reveals how these recollections show key continuities with the past rather than an abrupt break between the socialist and post-socialist worlds.\u003cbr\u003e Drawing Yugoslavian women's experiences into the geopolitical history of reproduction and the Cold War–era state, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yugoslav Woman\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the centrality of reproduction, contraception, and abortion to socialist Yugoslavia's self-conception as the developed leader of the developing world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations and Acronyms\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Establishing a Legal Landscape of Reproductive Regulation, 1945–1953\u003cbr\u003e 2. An Infrastructure to Medicalize Reproduction, 1945–1965\u003cbr\u003e 3. Yugoslavia and Fertility Control Technology, 1960–1974\u003cbr\u003e 4. Yugoslav Sex Education and Family Planning, 1960s and 1970s\u003cbr\u003e 5. Deconstructing Yugoslav Women's Recollections of Reproductive Regulation\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Regulating Reproduction in Yugoslavia During Socialism, and Beyond\u003cbr\u003e Glossary\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52525708214552,"sku":"9780253074171","price":58.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-new-yugoslav-woman-reproductive-regulation-in-socialist-yugoslavia-hardback-9780253074171","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}