Introduction : women's rights and democratization: the Polish paradox -- "The church was helping us win freedom" : democratic transition and the return of God -- Restricting access to reproductive services : religious power and moral governance -- Women respond : feminist consciousness-raising and activism -- Confessions, Kolda rituals, and other surveillance -- Abortion, Polish style -- The "dying nation" and the postsocialist logics of declining motherhood -- Conclusion : the future of women's rights in Poland
Summary
The Politics of Morality is an anthropological study of the expansion of power of the religious right in postsocialist Poland and its effects on individual rights and social mores