Part of the Pizza & Politics Series. Some theorists speculate that it is the rise in individualism more than the often suspected increases in education and urbanization that has caused the latest drop in fertility rates across Europe. Certainly, the growing attention being paid to various forms of intimate citizenship support this hypothesis. Croatia is currently undergoing intense Europeanization, thus examining Croat approaches to reconstructing intimate citizenship within the context of reproductive decision making gives us the opportunity to learn something about the impacts of Europeanization - both on reproduction and on Croatia.

Brittany Rast is a third year PhD student in the Anthropology Department. She received her B.A. with concentrations in Women's Studies, Sociology and Anthropology from Agnes Scott College in Atlanta, GA. She is currently working on a Graduate Certificate in East European Studies and a research project in Croatia. Her interest in reproductive decision making was sparked by several internships at various women- and health-centered organizations, including the DeKalb Domestic Violence Center and the CDC.