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The Watchful Society

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The Watchful Society

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This volume aims to depict the regimes of vigilance about love, sex, and the body in Eastern European socialist states. Case studies from Czechoslovakia, Poland, East Germany, Hungary, Yugoslavia, and Albania analyze the enforcement of new gender orders and the so-called socialist morality after the Second World War. On the one hand, the arguments and language used to implement this new morality and encourage the population to embrace it are analyzed. On the other hand, the authors explore how this ideal developed over the long term and ask how the boundaries between public and private shifted over time in relation to romantic relationships and sex. What did the state see, or rather, what did the people who were watchful on behalf of socialism see? What was overlooked? Where did state authorities intervene and where did they hold back? The individual contributions highlight major differences regarding socialist morality in Eastern Europe and the varying ways the collective monitored it. However, similar patterns and lines of development can also be seen in the lead-up to and the period after the fall of socialism.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
298
Release Date:
2025-12-08
Publication Date:
2025-12-08
Publisher:
Vandenhoeck + Ruprecht
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
3525373198
ISBN13:
9783525373194
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
624 g
Height:
160 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
25 cm
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