...Kanishka Goonewardena 2002 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization,Inc. 2002 PUBLIC HISTORY Aborted Identity: The Commission and Omission of a Monument to the Nation, Sri Lanka, circa 1989 Kanishka Goonewardena Sri Lanka in Crisis The doomed competition organized...

... in the first few decades of the Irish state, and their everyday lives in Britain; Lindsey Earner-Byrne and Diane Urquhart’s The Irish Abortion Journey , which documents the repressive discourses and policies surrounding abortion in twentieth-century Ireland and relates stories of traveling to Great Britain...

... into the professions. Family policy and tax codes in the Federal Republic reflect and reinforce the belief that women should have babies and stay home to take care of them. Abortion is restricted and, in conservative states like Bavaria, effectively unavailable. OnlXF 3 rcent of chil- dren under...

... Liberation and the Left 25 Demonstration at Mory’s, October 1970. Photo by Virginia Blaisdell. protest the cuts in the grants to welfare recipients, a class action suit challenging Connecticut’s abortion law, and an “offensive defense squad” that challenged...

... in reading period. Required Readings: Horatio Alger, Ragged Dick; or Street Rosalind Petchesky, Abortion and Life in New York. Woman 's Choice. Willa Cather, Five Stories. Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, Disorderly Frederick Douglass, Narrative...

... menstrual extractions, low-­cost abortions, and other reproductive health services.51 But feminist education and empowerment were their primary goals. As activist Marion Banzhaf recalled: “We didn’t look at our work as services. We looked at it as political education. We were a community institution...

... abortion. , with Ingrid Arendt, Bibliographie zur Geschichte de Karemytes der deutschen Arbeiterklasse (Leipzig, 1974). Auerswald, Leopoldine, "Zum kampf der Kommunistischen Partei Deutschlands urn die Einbeziehung der proletarischen Frauen in die revolutionaere...

... emphasize that racial ties to sexuality were regionally wide- spread in colonial America. Next, we read about courting, marriage, and reproduction in eighteenth- century British America, learning about birth control options, abortion, and pre- marital sex. Students read transcripts of bawdy...

... state moved to control health, education, and labor over the course of the 1960s, it became an intimate part of the family system. 17 The state sought to regulate sexuality through policies that included persecuting homosexuals, regulating abortion, and reeducating prostitutes. 18 Policing gender...

..., rape, birth control, abortion, courting rituals, the oppression of homosexuais and cam- paigns for lesbian and gay rights, the emergence of sexology as a scholarly discipline, and the organization of sexuality under fascism. In particular, we will consider the historical debates raging about...

... of Roe v. Wade in 1973, increased access to abortion and declining stigma against single motherhood helped inaugurate a third phase of child adoption — one in which fewer single white mothers relinquished their parental rights. Moreover, those white women who chose to place their children did so...

... on the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits federal funding for abortion ser- vices. This campaign exposed how certain gender and sexuality issues were often not covered by human rights law at all. In building their campaign this group thus argued that Hyde violated Convention on the Elimination of Racial...

... as "deviants"; within the context of the profoundly racialist Nazi worldview, they were represented as threats to the biological integrity of the nation, agents of the "death of the Volk." Linking in one office the administra- tive agency charged with prosecuting violations of anti-abortion laws...

... found that, as the course focuses primarily on cultural and social issues, I have lost track of some of the initial policy implications. I plan to reorganize the time spent in the course to focus more attention on the historical rel- evance of issues such as AIDS, abortion, pornography, the sexual...

...,” and ena- bling them to pursue a ”normal” life in which they could become proper mothers in the context of marriage. Adoption and homes for unwed mothers allowed a kind of erasure and a new beginning, much as abortion does today, but through a far more prolonged and intrusive process. Indeed...

... or clichéd abstrac- 174 Radical History Review “We are more than 343 sluts. We’ve been fucked by Arabs. We’re proud of it and we’ll do it again. Sign and circulate this petition.” Parody of the famous 1971 “Manifesto of the 343” circulated by French feminists who advocated legalizing abortion...

.... The province has also historically been the locus of social movement activity and a leader in the women’s movement. Femi- nists in Vancouver launched the birth-control movement in Canada in the 1930s.4 In 1969 women from British Columbia led the most visible protest against abortion laws in Canadian...

... Barbara Basler that she opposed abortion and did not support any feminist issue other than the fight against pornography.26 Supporters who knew little about feminism’s history, and the endorsement of organizations like Morality in Media for the Times Square cleanup, would make...

... homosexuality, birth control, and abortion. Students often reap the fiscal brunt of this attack but conservative anger reaches into all aspects of the left’s educational project, as politicians from both major parties take time out from demolishing the meager, but often critical, welfare net (a “sieve...

... to become the cultural bulwark of political domination: “There is no question that India had indeed become an experimental laboratory for testing educational ideas that had either been aborted in England or fallen victim to stiff opposition from entrenched traditions and or- thodoxies” (65...