RCCHC "Science, Technology, Society and Culture" Talk Series #13 – Socialist Revisionism or Women’s Liberation? The Politics of Abortion in Modern China
RCCHC
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Date
25 Oct 2024
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Organiser
RCCHC
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Time
09:30 - 10:00
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Venue
ZOOM
Speaker
Dr Sarah Mellors Rodriguez
Summary
China has one of the highest abortion rates in the world. This presentation explores the historical origins of this trend, revealing how abortion inadvertently became a primary method of fertility control. Moreover, this lecture demonstrates that abortion has long been the subject of intense ideological, feminist, and demographic debates in China.
Keynote Speaker
Dr Sarah Mellors Rodriguez
Acting Associate Professor of Chinese Humanities at Emory University
Sarah Mellors Rodriguez, PhD is Acting Associate Professor of Chinese Humanities at Emory University. Her book, Reproductive Realities in Modern China: Birth Control and Abortion, 1911-2021 (Cambridge University Press, 2023), uses interviews and archival research to analyze how ordinary people navigated China’s shifting fertility policies both before and during the One Child Policy era.
