TRANSCENDING BORDERS Abortion in the Past and Present

TRANSCENDING BORDERS Abortion in the Past and Present edited by Shannon Stettner, Katrina Ackerman, Kristin Burnett & Travis Hay Transcending Borders Shannon Stettner • Katrina Ackerman • Kristin Burnett • Travis Hay Editors Transcending Borders Abortion in the Past and Present Editors Shannon Stettner Katrina Ackerman Department of Women’s Studies Department of History University of Waterloo University of Regina Ontario, Canada Saskatchewan, Canada Kristin Burnett Travis Hay Indigenous Learning Department History Department Lakehead University York University Ontario, Canada Ontario, Canada ISBN 978-3-319-48398-6 ISBN 978-3-319-48399-3 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-48399-3 Library of Congress Control Number: 2017931665 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 This work is subject to copyright. 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Cover illustration: Findlay / Alamy Stock Photo Design by Jenny Vong Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland CONTENTS 1 “Every Body Has Its Own Feminism”: Introducing Transcending Borders 1 Katrina Ackerman, Kristin Burnett, Travis Hay, and Shannon Stettner Part I Historical Examinations of Abortion 17 2 Abortion, Infanticide, and a Return to the Gods: Politics of Pregnancy in Early Modern Japan 19 Eiko Saeki 3 Unlocking the Mysterious Trunk: Nineteenth-Century American Criminal Abortion Narratives 35 Tanfer Emin Tunç 4 “Impossible to Get to Know These Secret Means”—Colonial Anxiety and the Quest for Controlling Reproduction in “German East Africa” 53 Daniel Bendix v vi Contents 5 A “Grievously Sinful Attempt to Destroy the Life Which God Has Given:” Abortion, Anglicanism, and Debates About Community Composition in Twentieth-Century Zanzibar 69 Andreana C. Prichard 6 Troubled Women: Abortion and Psychiatry in Sweden in the 1940s and 1950s 89 Lena Lennerhed Part II Abortion Politics 101 7 “It Is Not Your Personal Concern”: Challenging Expertise in the Campaign to Legalize Abortion in France 103 Jennifer L. Sweatman 8 Feminism, Foetocentrism, and the Politics of Abortion Choice in 1970s Australia 121 Erica Millar 9 We Are All Feminists Now: How to Pass an Anti-Abortion Law in Australia 137 Kate Gleeson 10 A Provider’s Right to Choose: A Legal History 155 Mary Ziegler 11 Abortion Politics in a State in Transition: Contesting South Africa’s ‘Choice Act’ 171 Rebecca Hodes 12 Quiet Contestations of Irish Abortion Law: Abortion Politics in Flux? 187 Joanna Mishtal Contents vii Part III The Social and Discursive Spaces of Abortion 203 13 The Landscape of Unwanted Pregnancy and Abortion in Highland Bolivia, 1982–2010 205 Natalie L. Kimball 14 Settler Colonialism, Native American Motherhood, and the Politics of Terminating Pregnancies 221 Brianna Theobald 15 Revelation and Secrecy: Women’s Social Networks and the Contraception-Abortion Process in Cameroon 239 Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg and Sylvie Schuster 16 The End of Feminist Abortion Counseling? Examining Threats to Women’s Health 255 Elyse Ona Singer and Bayla Ostrach 17 True Threats: Wanted Posters, Stalking, and the First Amendment 271 Mark Dorosin Bibliography 289 Index 339 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Katrina Ackerman is an SSHRC postdoctoral fellow at the University of Regina. She completed her PhD at the University of Waterloo and has published on anti- abortion and reproductive rights activism in several peer-reviewed journals. Her broader research project investigates the emergence and longevity of social move- ment organizations and their impact on abortion barriers that continue to shape access to the procedure in Atlantic Canada. Daniel Bendix is a post-doc researcher at and lecturer in the Department for Development and Postcolonial Studies, the University of Kassel, Germany. His research focuses on global inequality, (post)colonialism, population and reproductive health policy, and global citizenship education. Daniel is a member of glokal, a postcolonial education collective based in Berlin. Kristin Burnett is an associate professor in the Department of Indigenous Learning and is the coordinator of the new graduate program in Social Justice Studies at Lakehead University. She was recently a Lakehead University Research Chair in Indigenous Health and Well-Being and is the author of Taking Medicine: Women’s Healing Work and Colonial Contact in Southern Alberta, 1880–1930. Her current research project looks at the relationships between health, food sover- eignty, and colonialism in northern First Nations communities. Burnett’s work with rural and northern First Nations is community informed, participatory, and action oriented. Mark Dorosin is the Managing Attorney at the University of North Carolina Center for Civil Rights. He teaches political and civil rights at the law school and is the faculty advisor to the Julius Chambers Civil Rights Moot Court team. In 2010, Dorosin was chosen as the Pro Bono Faculty Member of the Year. He also serves on the Orange County Board of Commissioners. ix x NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg is Broom Professor of Social Demography and Anthropology at Carleton College, Minnesota, USA. She is the author of Plundered Kitchens, Empty Wombs: Threatened Reproduction and Identity in the Cameroon Grassfields (1999), Mothers on the Move: Reproducing Belonging between Africa and Europe (2016), and Migranten, Recht und Identität: Afrikanische Mütter und der Kampf um Zugehörigkeit in Berlin (2016), as well as editor of the volume Reproduction, Collective Memory, and Generation in Africa (2005). Kate Gleeson is Senior Lecturer in Law at Macquarie Law School. She has an enduring interest in conservative politics. Travis Hay is a doctoral candidate in the History Department at York University who has received an SSHRC Doctoral Scholarship and a Ramsay Cook Fellowship for Canadian History. He received his Master’s from Lakehead University and has written articles on federal Indian policy, settler colonialism, and scientific knowl- edge production. Rebecca Hodes is a medical historian, and the Director of the AIDS and Society Research Unit, based at the University of Cape Town. Her current research focuses on the histories of science, race and sex. She is the co-principal investigator of the Mzantsi Wakho study, about the health practices of teenagers and youth in South Africa. Her first monograph,Broadcasting the Pandemic: A History of HIV/AIDS on South African Television, was published by the Human Sciences Research Council Press in 2014. Natalie L. Kimball is an assistant professor of history at the City University of New York (CUNY), College of Staten Island. Her research focuses on gender, sexuality, and reproduction in Latin America. Her book manuscript, which is under contract with Rutgers University Press, is entitled An Open Secret: The History of Unwanted Pregnancy and Abortion in Modern Bolivia. Lena Lennerhed is Professor of History of Ideas at Södertörn University in Stockholm, Sweden. She has written books and articles about sex reform, sex education, and abortion in the twentieth century. Her book on illegal abortion in Sweden, Historier om ett brott (“Histories about a crime”) was published in 2008. Recent publications in English are “Sexual Liberalism in Sweden,” in Gert Hekma & Alain Giami (eds), Sexual Revolutions (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), and “Sherri Finkbine’s choice. Abortion, sex-liberalism and feminism in Sweden in the 1960’s and 1970s” in Women’s History Magazine, issue 73 Autumn 2013. She is currently writing a book about abortion reform in Sweden in the twentieth century. Erica Millar is an interdisciplinary gender scholar in the Department of Gender Studies and Social Analysis at the University of Adelaide, Australia. Her work examines NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS xi the cultural politics, sociology, and biopolitics of reproduction. Her first monograph Happy Abortions: Our Bodies in the Era of Choice will be published by Zed Books. Joanna Mishtal is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Central Florida. She received her PhD in cultural anthropology from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and held a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health. Her research

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