Susanne M. Klausen. Abortion under Apartheid: Nationalism, Sexuality, and Women’s Reproductive Rights in South Africa.

Decker, Alicia C.

doi:10.1093/ahr/122.3.970

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“…At the same time, out of respect for sensitive personal information, I also did not want to probe too much, so likely did not obtain as much information as I could have. (After reading Susanne Klausen [2015], I realized there was a great silence about abortion as well. It was likely quite prevalent, but it was only mentioned in three interviews).…”

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Dialoguing with Retired Nurses: Involving Interview Participants in the Interpretation Process in South Africa

Hadfield¹

2023

Afr. Stud. Rev.

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The African Studies community has reinvigorated discussions about the racial and power dynamics of the field in the past few years. A core question has been how to Africanize knowledge production. Hadfield’s practical example as a white American historian involving Black South African oral history interview participants in different stages of the research process shows that successfully including interview participants in the interpretation stage requires clarity and transparency throughout. If meaningful dialogue is employed and human connections prioritized, the result should be a more accurate and inclusive process that satisfies all, even if scholars and participants disagree.

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Section: Conducting the Interviewsmentioning

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Dialoguing with Retired Nurses: Involving Interview Participants in the Interpretation Process in South Africa

Hadfield¹

2023

Afr. Stud. Rev.

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“…18 The control of white women's heterosexuality and reproductive roles was central to apartheid legitimation. 19 Working-class white women utilized these meanings to reclaim their own politics at specific times. Yet working-class white women were also disciplined into these meanings through welfarism and middle-class white women's actions, which relied on mobilizing global discourses and practices of respectability and hierarchy.…”

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The “Shop Girl” and White Nationalism: White Working-class Women and Femininity in Johannesburg Department Stores, 1930s–1970s

Kenny

2023

Inter. Labor Working-Class Hist.

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Based on media stories and union campaigns, this paper tracks the discourses from the 1930s to the 1970s around the ‘shop girl’ in Johannesburg. It argues that the shop girl was a figure of white femininity that complicates the now extensive literature on white women in South Africa through its reproduction of the enduring tension of class difference. Through archival research and interviews, the paper shows how the ‘shop girl’ contributed to an ideology of white nationalism, focused more traditionally around motherhood and domesticity. The embodied labor of white women workers in Johannesburg both relied on their femininity and ensured that the affective labor of service work was a site of contradiction and contestation with white middle class women consumers. Class difference could therefore be contained within the semiotics of white nationhood through the site of consumption and retailing.

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“…In particular, relationships across race were increasingly perceived as a threat, and were barred through the Immorality Act of 1927 (amended in 1957). During the apartheid era (from 1948 until the early 1990s), police actively patrolled the intimate lives of citizens (Klausen, 2004(Klausen, , 2015. With regards to sex work, the formal policing by colonial powers of women selling sex was for the most part lenient during the 19 th century, when legal measures primarily sought to control the (primarily black or mixed race) sex workers as potential vectors of disease, or as a public nuisance (Thusi, 2015).…”

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Silences and Vulnerabilities

Thapar‐Björkert¹,

Stevens²,

Eriksson³

et al. 2023

The Thinker

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In 1999, Sweden introduced legislation that prohibits and criminalises the purchase of sex – while continuing to decriminalise the selling of sex. Referred to as the ‘Swedish model’, or the ‘Nordic model’ after neighbouring countries followed suit, this legal framework is built on an understanding of ‘prostitution’ as exploitation and a form of violence against women. Examined through this lens, the selling of sex can never be regarded as work. Through its feminist foreign policy platform (in place between 2014 and 2022), Sweden declared that it would engage in ‘persistent and robust commitment and agency’ to encourage other countries to adopt similar legal frameworks. Yet, evidence of the presumed success of the Swedish model is scant at best, with recent research raising concerns over how the Sex Purchase Act in conjunction with immigration law and third-party regulation has contributed to increasedvulnerability of migrant sex workers – who make up the majority of people selling sex in the Nordic region (Vuolajärvi, 2019).In South Africa, both the selling and buying of sex is criminalised, in spite of the country being party to several international treaties that recognise the right to free choice of work. As decriminalisation of sex work in South Africa is currently high on the public agenda,and the ‘Swedish model’ is one of the alternatives discussed, critically examining the possible consequences of adopting this model is crucial. In this paper, we draw on research and activist interventions in Sweden and South Africa to examine the possible implications of the adoption of the ‘Swedish model’ in South Africa – a country with markedly different historical and demographic trajectories, migratory patterns, and a much less extensive and supported social welfare system. We caution that such a move may not achieve the aim of reducing sex workers’ vulnerability and exposure to violence. Furthermore, framing the selling of sex as violence rather than work may risk silencing causes for social justice by stripping sex workers of their agency and autonomy, while simultaneously casting them as victims.

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Susanne M. Klausen. Abortion under Apartheid: Nationalism, Sexuality, and Women’s Reproductive Rights in South Africa.

Cited by 5 publications

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Dialoguing with Retired Nurses: Involving Interview Participants in the Interpretation Process in South Africa

Dialoguing with Retired Nurses: Involving Interview Participants in the Interpretation Process in South Africa

The “Shop Girl” and White Nationalism: White Working-class Women and Femininity in Johannesburg Department Stores, 1930s–1970s

Silences and Vulnerabilities

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