In the Name of Helping Women: Women Against the Family Policy of the Slovak State.
Fuelled by nationalism and Catholicism, the wartime Slovak state, a client state of Nazi Germany, aimed to promote population growth by forcing the return of women from public to private life and supporting Slovak Christian families, but also by stigmatizing and restricting any sexuality that was no...
| Publicado en: | Central Europe Vol. 21; no. 2; pp. 78 - 97 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Nov2023
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