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Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction - Challeging Norms: Family Planning as a Reflection of Social Change in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe -- Part I - Transnational Perspectives -- Chapter 1 - Family Planning, Reproductive Decision-Making, Health Feminism: Changing Norms and Social Practices of Reproduction in the Twentieth Century -- Chapter 2 - Conflicting Norms: The Evolvement of Fetal Rights vs. Reproductive Rights in a Transnational Perspective: The Cases of Ireland and Poland -- Part II - On the Stage: Negotiating the Intimate/Private -- Chapter 3 - "Mother, Think of Me": Women and Mothers in the Upper Silesian Plebiscite Propaganda -- Chapter 4 - The Vicious Circle of Abortions: Family Planning in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1918-1941) -- Chapter 5 - Wartime Sexual Violence and Its Consequences in the Catholic and Medical Postwar Discourses in Poland, 1945-1946 -- Chapter 6 - Revisiting the "Illegitimacy" Phenomenon: Evidence from Twentieth-Century Greece -- Part III - Against the Norms: Revisiting Family Concepts -- Chapter 7 - Hungarian and German Childbearing in Nineteeth-Century South Transdanubia: A Fertility History of the Roman Catholic German Community of Mágocs and the Calvinist Hungarian Community of Vajszló (1791-1890) -- Chapter 8 - Prostitution and Motherhood in the Twentieth Century in Czech Lands -- Chapter 9 - Sexuality, Reproductive Rights, and Partnership as Areas of Conflict in Postwar Poland -- Chapter 10 - From "Abortion Culture" to Family Planning: The Continuities and Discontinuities of Birth Control Regimes in Twentieth-Century Hungary -- Part IV - Across Borders: Shaping the Knowledge -- Chapter 11 - Confrontation and Dialogue: Family Planning Narratives and Activisms in Interwar Poland -- Chapter 12 - Family Planning in Slovakia (1939-1945) and Its Ideological Influences.

Chapter 13 - Sovietization of Women in Lithuania: Representations of Motherhood and Family Planning in the Magazine Tarybine Moteris (1952-1989) -- Chapter 14 - Navigating Late USSR Family Planning: Scattered Narratives from Demography and Medicine -- Part V - Concluding Remarks -- Afterword: New Directions in the Histories of Family Planning -- Index.

An enlightening and geographically wide-ranging re-examination of family planning in twentieth-century Eastern Europe, Challenging Norms interrogates the correlation between social attitudes to family planning and social, economic, and political modernization. In doing so, this volume highlights how these changes provide invaluable insights into ever-evolving societal norms and values.