1st Edition
A History of Abortion and Contraception in Queensland, Australia, 1960–1989 Sex under Conservative Rule
By Cassandra Byrnes
Copyright 2024
186 Pages
by
Routledge
186 Pages
by
Routledge
186 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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.
Biography
Cassandra Byrnes is a lecturer in the School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry at the University of Queensland, Australia.
