{"id":14268,"date":"2016-03-23T15:15:56","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T19:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?p=14268"},"modified":"2024-07-03T19:53:19","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T23:53:19","slug":"klausens-abortion-apartheid-2015-nominated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/2016\/klausens-abortion-apartheid-2015-nominated\/","title":{"rendered":"Susanne Klausen’s Abortion Under Apartheid (2015) short listed for CHA’s Wallace K. Ferguson prize"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Susanne Klausen’s Abortion Under Apartheid (2015) short listed for CHA’s Wallace K. Ferguson prize\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

Professor Klausen’s book is one of five books shortlisted for  the Wallace K. Ferguson Prize, which is awarded by the Canadian Historical Association to recognise the outstanding scholarly book in a field of history other than Canadian history.<\/span> <\/strong>This is the second time in as many years that the work of  members of the department has been recognised: in 2014 Mark Salber Philips won the prize for his book, On Historical Distance <\/em>(2013).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Professor Klausen’s book examines how the ruling Afrikaner National Party attempted to regulate women\u2019s reproductive sexuality under apartheid (1948-1990). She chronicles the extreme lengths to which women facing unwanted pregnancy would go to control their destinies. For more on the book, see the interview<\/a> with Professor Klausen.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abortion Under Apartheid<\/a>: Nationalism, Sexuality, and Women\u2019s Reproductive Rights in South Africa is published by Oxford University Press.  <\/span>The winner will be announced on May 31 at the CHA Annual Prize Ceremonies that will be held during Congress in Calgary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Professor Klausen’s book is one of five books shortlisted for  the Wallace K. Ferguson Prize, which is awarded by the Canadian Historical Association to recognise the outstanding scholarly book in a field of history other than Canadian history. This is the second time in as many years that the work of  members of the department has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"null"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14268"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14312,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14268\/revisions\/14312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}