Abortion under apartheid : nationalism, sexuality, and women's reproductive rights in South Africa /
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'...
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- '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.