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Abortion under apartheid [electronic resource] : nationalism, sexuality, and women's reproductive rights in South Africa / Susanne M. Klausen.

Klausen, Susanne Maria, 1965- author.
2015
HQ767.5.S6 K55 2015eb
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Title
Abortion under apartheid [electronic resource] : nationalism, sexuality, and women's reproductive rights in South Africa / Susanne M. Klausen.
Author
Klausen, Susanne Maria, 1965- author.
ISBN
9780190258122 (electronic book)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199844494
Published
New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (327 pages) : illustrations
Item Number
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199844494 doi
Call Number
HQ767.5.S6 K55 2015eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
362.1988800968
Summary
This work examines the criminalisation 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.
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This work examines the criminalisation 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Abortion under apartheid.
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'I'd never had pain like that
a searing, dying agony' : racialized clandestine abortion
'South Africa is experiencing an all-out attack by permissiveness' : Communism, immorality and the disintegration of apartheid culture
'My uterus belongs to me' : the campaign for abortion law reform
'The trial the world is watching' : the Crichton-Watts trial, 1972
'Subjected to relentless and grueling cross-examination' : the Crichton-Maharaj trial, 1973
'Reclaiming the white daughter's purity' : the passage and impact of the Abortion and Sterilization Act, 1975
'The actual matter is with us whites' : abortion and the 'black peril'
'The law is a total failure' : abortion from 1975 to the end of apartheid
Conclusion
Appendix A: The Abortion and Sterilization Act.

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