Buch, Englisch, 186 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 449 g
Sex under Conservative Rule
Buch, Englisch, 186 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 449 g
ISBN: 978-1-032-51857-2
Verlag: Routledge
This book looks at the recent history of sex, contraception, and abortion in Australia’s most conservative state, Queensland. In western nations, there has largely been a consistent increase in available contraception and access to abortion from the 1960s onwards, yet there are a few geographical exceptions that resisted this trend, including Queensland.
Cassandra Byrnes highlights the multifarious ways sexuality and reproduction were continually constructed and challenged during the second half of the twentieth century and follows the responses of key groups to changing laws and attitudes in a time of local and global sexual and social revolutions. She explores interactions between identities of gender, sexuality, class, age, marital status, and geography to illustrate how specific sexed bodies became liminal sites for legal and medical debate.
This Queensland case study is contextualised within international debates concerning women’s reproductive rights and will be of interest to students and scholars interested in the history of reproductive rights, gender, and sexuality.
Zielgruppe
Academic and Postgraduate
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Australische und Pazifische Geschichte
Weitere Infos & Material
Introduction. 1. Contextualising Queensland: Interconnected and Individual Authorities. 2. Contracepting Queensland: The Emergence of Modern Birth Control 3. Sex Education and Teenage Anxieties 4. Abortion Law Reform in the 1980s 5. Policing and Prosecuting Abortion, 1895–1986. Conclusion.
