Article ID: CBB602217086

Issues of biopolitics of reproduction in post-war Greece (2020)

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The Greek biopolitics of reproduction during the post-war period was determined by the demographic figures. Instead of a rise in births, Greece experienced a constant downward trajectory of the birth rate throughout the second half of the twentieth century. The country also witnessed population instability due to the massive immigration in the 1960s and the wave of repatriation in the next decade. The article explores the state's biopolitics in order to achieve demographic equilibrium by adopting a pronatalist perspective. The construction of biopolitics was influenced by the consecutive wars of the first half of the century resulting in the denial of any means suspected of reducing the birth rate, such as contraception and abortion. In parallel, the article investigates the attempts of a group of eugenicists to impose to the state authorities their own views on reproduction control. The key debates were birth control and abortion because these issues of reproduction were entangled with major social fermentations caused by urbanization, modernization, eugenics, and feminism. The Constitution of 1974 was instrumental in changing the biopolitics of reproduction by introducing equal rights to men and women. It provoked a series of legal transformations with regard to marriage, family, and reproduction.

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Article Christopher Donohue (2020) Social borrowings and biological appropriations: Special issue introduction. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences (p. 101309). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Dyck, Erika
Ignaciuk, Agata
DiMoia, John P.
Lin, Yi-Tang
Matsuoka, Etsuko
Lee, Sujin
Concepts
Birth control; contraception; sterilization
Family planning
Public health
Population control
Women and health
Reproduction
Time Periods
20th century, late
20th century
20th century, early
19th century
Places
East Asia
United States
Poland
China
Canada
Alberta, Canada
Institutions
Population Council
World Health Organization (WHO)
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