Sexuality and Abortion in Interwar Poland

Maternity in Times of Crisis

Womens rights activism and the reformation of the legal thought in early twentieth-century Poland were deeply intertwinedsometimes contradictory, yet mutually dependentshaping debates around the 1932 abortion law and challenging traditional views on female sexuality and motherhood

Womens rights activism and the reformation of the legal thought in early twentieth-century Poland were deeply intertwinedsometimes contradictory, yet mutually dependentshaping debates around the 1932 abortion law and challenging traditional views on female sexuality and motherhood. Set against political transformation, economic hardship, and societal pressure, this book explores the clash between liberal moral reform ideas and the ideal of the traditional Polish family. Through individual stories from rural Suwalki county, it reveals how precarity, gender roles, and state expectations influenced womens choices, with abortion