This handbook provides an overview of scholarly research on sexuality in East Central Europe for both students and academics, focusing on the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia, from the late nineteenth century to the present. (April 10, 2025)
Publications
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History of the Human Sciences
Lišková, K., Jarska, N., Wahl, M., (2024), „Early state socialism and eugenics: Premarital medical certificates in Czechoslovakia, East Germany, and Poland in the aftermath of World War II“ (October 14, 2024).
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The History of the Family
Gagyiova, A., Aguilar López-Barajas, J. L.,(2024), “School Maturity and the Quest for Normalcy: How Parental Complaints Shaped Expertise and State Policies in Socialist Hungary and East Germany, 1960s-1980s,” The History of the Family 29, no. 3 (July 2, 2024): 393–417.
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Hungarian Historical Review
Gagyiova, A., (2023), “Every Child According to Its Pace: School Maturity between Expertise, State Policies, and Parental Eigensinn in Socialist Hungary,” Hungarian Historical Review 12, no. 3 (2023): 461–92.
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Medical History
Lišková, K., Jarska, N., Gagyiova, A., Aguilar López-Barajas, J. L., & Rábová, Š. C. (2023). Work, marriage and premature birth: the socio-medicalisation of pregnancy in state socialist East-Central Europe. Medical History, Cambridge University Press.
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History of Science
Lišková, K., Jarska, N., Gagyiova, A., Aguilar López-Barajas, J. L., & Rábová, Š. C. (2023). Saving newborns, defining livebirth: The struggle to reduce infant mortality in East-Central Europe in comparative and transnational perspectives, 1945–1965. History of Science.
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European Journal for the History of Medicine and Health
Lišková, Kateřina. ‘History of Medicine in Eastern Europe: Sexual Medicine and Women’s Reproductive Health in Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Hungary’. European Journal for the History of Medicine and Health 78, no. 1, 2021: 181–94.
