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Radka Dudová, Hana Hašková. 2025. „Some babies are better than others. Selective Pronatalism, Ethnicity and Sexuality Politics behind the Iron Curtain“. Pp. 152-162 in H. Renkin, A. Kościańska, K. Lišková (eds.). Handbook of Sexuality in East Central Europe. 488. DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003204763. Available from: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003204763

This chapter focuses on the reproductive policies – regulation of abortion, sterilization, and financial support to families – in socialist Czechoslovakia, to show how ethnicity represented one of the main dividing lines between those deserving and undeserving to reproduce.

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