Gender & Transformation in Central-Eastern Europe and Eurasia workshop

With the advent of socialism, East-Central European (ECE) states emphasized women’s equality. Kateřina showed the unexpected progress brought to the fore by medical science in women’s sexual health. Drawing on her own and the ExpertTurn team’s research on Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and East Germany, Kateřina focused on the first postwar decade during which abortion on demand was legalized in most ECE countries, and gynecological and pregnancy care became institutionalized.