This multidisciplinary volume investigates different abortion and reproductive practices across time, space, geography, national boundaries, and cultures. The authors specialize in the reproductive politics of Australia, Bolivia, Cameroon, France, German East Africa, Ireland, Japan, Sweden, South Africa, the United States, and Zanzibar, with historical focuses on the pre-modern era, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as well as the present day. This timely work complicates the many histories and ongoing politics of abortion by exploring the conditions in which women have been forced to make these life-altering decisions.
Every body has its own feminism: Introducing Transcending Borders
Section One: Historical Examinations of Abortion
Abortion, Infanticide and a Return to the Gods: Politics of Pregnancy in Early Modern Japan
Unlocking the Mysterious Trunk: Nineteenth-Century American Criminal Abortion Narratives
'Impossible to get to know these secret means' Colonial anxiety and the quest for controlling reproduction in 'German East Africa'
A grievously sinful attempt to destroy the life which God has given: Abortion, Anglicanism, and Debates about Community Composition in Twentieth-Century Zanzibar
Troubled Women: Abortion and Psychiatry in Sweden in the 1940s and 1950s
Section Two: Abortion Politics
It is not your personal concern: Challenging Expertise in the lS-
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