Susanne Klausen

Domaine de recherche

l'Afrique

Pays de résidence

Canada

Titre

Associate Professor

Affiliation

Carleton University

Adresse électronique

susanne_klausen@carleton.ca

Adresse

Carleton University
Department of History
1125 Colonel By Drive
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada KiS 5B6

Téléphone/Télécopie

tel. 1(613)520-2600 x2827

Pays de spécialisation

South Africa

Éducation

BA - University of Victoria
MA - Queen's University, Kingston
PhD - Queen's University, Kingston

Recherche

Politics of Reproduction
Nationalism and Sexuality
Medicine in Africa

Enseignement

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.

Mots-clés

gender, sexuality, nationalism, fertility control, reproductive rights