Susanne M Klausen

Abortion Under Apartheid

Nationalism, Sexuality, and Women's Reproductive Rights in South Africa

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Produktbeschreibung

Abortion Under Apartheid examines the criminalization of abortion in South Africa during apartheid (1948-1990) and its impact on women of all "races" determined to terminate unwanted pregnancies. It also traces the emergence of a movement for abortion law reform and the 1975 passage of South Africa's first statutory law on abortion.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 481g
• ISBN-13: 9780190939878
• ISBN-10: 0190939877
• Artikelnr.: 54147056

Autorenporträt

Susanne M. Klausen is Professor of History at Carleton University, Ottawa.

Inhaltsangabe

Acronyms
Introduction
Chapter 1: "I'd Never Had Pain Like That - A Searing, Dying Agony":
Racialized Clandestine Abortion
Chapter 2: "South Africa is Experiencing an All-Out Attack by Permissiveness":
Communism, Immorality and the Disintegration of Apartheid Culture
Chapter 3: "My Uterus Belongs To Me":
The Campaign for Abortion Law Reform
Chapter 4: "The Trial the World is Watching":
The Crichton-Watts Trial, 1972
Chapter 5: "Subjected to Relentless and Grueling Cross-Examination":
The Crichton-Maharaj Trial, 1973
Chapter 6: "Reclaiming the White Daughter's Purity":
The Passage of the Abortion and Sterilization Act, 1975
Chapter 7: "The Actual Matter is With Us Whites":
Abortion and the "Black Peril"
Chapter 8: "The Law is a Total Failure:"
Abortion from 1975 to the End of Apartheid
Conclusion
Appendix: The Abortion and Sterilization Act (1975)
Bibliography