Susanne Klausen

Region of Interest	Africa
Primary Country of Residence	Canada
Title	Associate Professor
Affiliation	Carleton University
Email	susanne_klausen@carleton.ca
Mailing Address	Carleton University Department of History 1125 Colonel By Drive Ottawa, Ontario Canada KiS 5B6
Phone/Fax Number(s)	tel. 1(613)520-2600 x2827
Countries of Specialization	South Africa
Education	BA - University of Victoria MA - Queen's University, Kingston PhD - Queen's University, Kingston
Research Interests	Politics of Reproduction Nationalism and Sexuality Medicine in Africa
Teaching Interests	Modern South Africa Modern Africa Gender and Colonialism World History
Publications	Race, Maternity and the Politics of Birth Control in South Africa (Houndmills, U.K.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004). “’For the Sake of the Race’: Eugenic Discourses in the South African Medical Record, 1903-1926 and the Journal of the Medical Association of South Africa, 1927-1931.” Journal of Southern African Studies, 23 (March 1997), 27-50. “The Race Welfare Society: Eugenics and Birth Control in Johannesburg, 1930-1939.” In Science and Society in Southern Africa, ed. by Saul Dubow (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000), 164-187 “‘Poor Whiteism,’ White Maternal Mortality, and the Promotion of ‘Public Health:’ The Department of Public Health’s Support for Contraceptive Services in South Africa, 1930-1938.” South African Historical Journal, 45 (November 2001), 53-78. “The Imperial Mother of Birth Control: Marie Stopes and the South African Birth-Control Movement, 1930-1950.” In Colonialism and the Modern World, eds. Greg Blue, Martin Bunton and Ralph Crozier (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2002), 182-199. “Women’s Resistance to Eugenic Birth Control in Johannesburg, 1930-39.” Special Issue of South African Historical Journal, 50 (May 2004), 152-169. “Introduction” to Endangered Bodies: Women, Children and Health in Africa, eds. Toyin Falola and Matthew Heaton (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2006), 87-112. Co-written with Alison Bashford, “Eugenics, Feminism and Fertility Control.” In The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics, eds. Alison Bashford and Philippa Levine (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), 98-115. “’Reclaiming the White Daughter’s Purity’: Afrikaner Nationalism, Racialized Sexuality and the 1975 Abortion and Sterilization Act in Apartheid South Africa,” in special issue on Reproduction, Sex and Power in the Journal of Women’s History, 22, 3 (2010), 39-63.
Keywords	gender, sexuality, nationalism, fertility control, reproductive rights