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Abortion

Allen, Judith A. “The Trials of Abortion in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Australia.” Australian Cultural History 12 (1993 ): 87-99.

Allen, Judith A. Sex and Secrets: Crimes Involving Australian Women since 1880.  Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1990.

Allen, Judith. “Octavius Beale Reconsidered: Infanticide, Babyfarming and Abortion in Nsw 1880-1939.” In What Rough Beast?: The State and Social Order in Australian History, edited by Sydney Labour History Group, 111-29. Sydney; London; Boston: Allen & Unwin, 1982.

Baird, Barbara. “’The Incompetent, Barbarous Old Lady Round the Corner’: The Image of the Backyard Abortionist in Pro-Abortion Politics.” Hecate 22, no. 1 (1996): 7-26.

Baird, Barbara. “Abortion in South Australia before 1970: An Oral History Project.” Lilith: A Feminist History Journal, no. 7 (1991): 113-29.

Baird, Barbara. “The Self‐aborting Woman.” Australian Feminist Studies13, no. 28 (October 1, 1998): 323–37.

Baird, Barbara. I Had One Too– : An Oral History of Abortion in South Australia before 1970.  Bedford Park: Women’s Studies Unit, Flinders University of South Australia, 1990.

Bongiorno, Frank. The Sex Lives of Australians: A History Melbourne: Schwartz Publishing, 2012.

Carmichael, Gordon A. “From Floating Brothels to Suburban Semirespectability: Two Centuries of Nonmarital Pregnancy in Australia.” Journal of Family History 21 (1996): 281-315.

Cook, Hera. “Unseemly and Unwomanly Behaviour: Comparing Women’s Control of Their Fertility in Australia and England from 1890 to 1970.” Journal of Population Research 17, no. 2 (2000): 125-41.

Davies, Susanne. “Captives of Their Bodies: Women, Law and Punishment, 1880s-1980s.” In Sex, Power and Justice: Historical Perspectives on Law in Australia, edited by Diane Kirkby, 99-115. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Featherstone, Lisa. Let’s Talk About Sex: Histories of Sexuality in Australia from Federation to the Pill.  Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011.

Finch, Lyn, and Jon Stratton. “The Australian Working Class and the Practice of Abortion 1880-1939.” Journal of Australian Studies 12, no. 23 (1988): 45-64.

Finch, Lynette. The Classing Gaze: Sexuality, Class and Surveillance.  St Leonards: Allen & Unwin, 1993.

Gregory, Helen and John Thearle. “Casualties of Brisbane’s Growth: Infant and Child Mortality in the 1860s.” In Brisbane: Housing, Health, the River and the Arts, edited by Rod and Ray Sumner Fisher, 56-70. Brisbane: Brisbane History Group, 1985.

Haigh, Gideon. The Racket: How Abortion Became Legal in Australia.  Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 2008.

Millar, Erica. “Choice-makers or failures: Providing a genealogy of abortion shame and shaming.” law&history 2 (2014): 114-145.

Parker, Clare. “Female Complaints & Certain Events: Silencing Abortion Discourse.” Lilith: A Feminist History Journal, no. 19 (2013): 32-45.

Parker, Clare. “A Parliament’s Right to Choose Abortion Law Reform in South Australia.” History Australia 11, no. 2 (2014): 60-79.

Riseman, Noah. “Medical Choice: The Australian Movement to Legalise Abortion, 1967-79.” Lilith: A Feminist History Journal, no. 14 (2005): 92-104.

Ryan, Lyndall, and Margie Ripper. “Women, Abortion and the State.” Journal of Australian Studies 17, no. 37 (June 1, 1993): 72–87.

Siedlecky, Stefania, and Diana Wyndham. Populate and Perish: Australian Women’s Fight for Birth Control.  Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1990.

Sumerling, Patricia. “The Darker Side of Motherhood: Abortion and Infanticide in South Australia 1870-1910.” Journal of the Historical Society of South Australia, no. 13 (1985): 111-27.

Swain, Shurlee, and Renate Howe. Single Mothers and Their Children: Disposal, Punishment and Survival in Australia.  Cambridge; Oakleigh: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Wainer, Jo, ed. Lost: Illegal Abortion Stories.  Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 2006.

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