September 23 — “For the Sake of the Race: Poor Whites, Colonialism and the Politics of Birth Control in South Africa, 1910-1930″
In retrospect it is easy to see the coalescing of Apartheid in Sount Africa in black & white terms (no pun meant). Suzanne Klausen’s study of conflict and coalitions over birth control among different groups of South African whites before Apartheid shows that things were more fluid.
When: Tuesday September 23, noon
Where: IUPUI Campus Center, Room 409
Susanne Klausen, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of History, Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Co-sponsored by the MH-HS Program, the IUPUI Committee on African and African-American Studies and by the IU Center for the History of Medicine For more information, contact Vanessa D’Amico (vdamico@iupui.edu)
For a useful review of Susanne Klausen’s book, Race, Maternity, and the Politics of Birth Control in South Africa, 1910-1939, go here.
If you think this sounds interesting, be sure to check out …
Prof. Klausen gives another topic on the history of South African birth control the afternoon of September 23. For a very different sort of perspective on gender and race in South Africa, hear theologian Isabel Phiri at CTs when she discusses women and theological education in South Africa September 15, HIV/AIDS, violence against women, and notions of masculinity in Africa September 17, and Black Theology in contemporary South Africa September 18.
Know before you go:
Read an article by Prof. Klausen, “The uncertain future of white supremacy and the politics of fertility in South Africa– 1930-1939.”
For more information …
… about South Africa, visit the Provocate site of South African resources.
And for your listening pleasure …
