Pregnancy Law in South Africa: Between Reproductive Autonomy and Foetal Interests
- Submitting institution
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University of Durham
- Unit of assessment
- 18 - Law
- Output identifier
- 125756
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Juta
- ISBN
- 9781485119548
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2017
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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- Research group(s)
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E - Human Rights Centre
- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- Pregnancy Law in South Africa is the first monograph to explore women’s reproductive rights in South Africa and provides a rigorous examination the law’s approach to pregnancy, analysing the tension between foetal interests and reproductive autonomy. The book goes beyond debates about rights to access abortion and explores foetal interests, autonomy and reproductive rights in the context of feticide, involuntary abortion and substance abuse. The book offers an extensive analysis of women’s autonomy, exploring global feminist perspectives, the legal status of women and foetuses in South African law (drawing on US comparisons), and makes reform proposals based on relational feminism.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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