Cassandra Byrnes

A History of Abortion and Contraception in Queensland, Australia, 1960-1989 (eBook, ePUB)

Sex under Conservative Rule

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040038802
• Artikelnr.: 70228749

Autorenporträt

Cassandra Byrnes is a lecturer in the School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry at the University of Queensland, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

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.