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Pregnancy prevention and/or termination: On history of birth control in Serbia

Author(s) -

Rada Drezgić

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

sociologija

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.174

H-Index - 8

eISSN - 2406-0712

pISSN - 0038-0318

DOI - 10.2298/soc1603335d

Subject(s) - birth control , fertility , abortion , ambivalence , ideology , control (management) , family planning , perspective (graphical) , social control , birth rate , demography , sociology , pregnancy , gender studies , political science , psychology , social science , social psychology , law , population , economics , research methodology , computer science , politics , artificial intelligence , biology , genetics , management

This text gives a brief survey of history of fertility control in Serbia from the 19th century to present. Special attention is given to the mid 20th century, the period during which currently still prevalent model of fertility control has been constituted in Serbia. This model is marked by a combination of behavioral methods and abortion, as a backup method. The author scrutinizes structural and ideological features from different levels of social organization that have framed this model of family planning and examines its advantages over medical contraception from the users’ perspective. Finally, the text discusses the ambivalent status of abortion in society which has been at the same time rather widespread and normalized method of birth control and stigmatized.

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