‘Creative Ferment’: abortion and reproductive agency in Bessie Head’s Personal Choices trilogy
Using original archival research from Amazwi South African Museum of Literature, this article examines representations of abortion in three novels by Bessie Head: When Rain Clouds Gather (1968), Maru (1971) and A Question of Power (1973). I argue that Bessie Head documents both changing attitudes to...
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BMJ Publishing Group
2021
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