Over the decades from 1900 to 1967 abortion was transformed from an important female-centred form of fertility control into a medical event, closely monitored by the State. This transition, the author argues here, took place against a background of debate over fertility control and its implications for women's maternal role. The book, originally published in 1988, suggests that the inter-war years saw a crucial mapping of boundaries in the debates over abortion. The distinction between methods of fertility control used before and after conception was more sharply drawn. The abortion law was...
Over the decades from 1900 to 1967 abortion was transformed from an important female-centred form of fertility control into a medical event, closely m...
How, when, and why has the Pacific been a locus for imagining different futures by those living there as well as passing through? Foregrounding the work of leading and emerging scholars of Oceania, Pacific Futures brings together a diverse set of approaches to, and examples of, how futures are being conceived in the region and have been imagined in the past.
How, when, and why has the Pacific been a locus for imagining different futures by those living there as well as passing through? Foregrounding the wo...
