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SUMMARY:&quot\;Foreign Girls Come to London&quot\;: Residency\, Travel and
  Abortion Access\, 1960-1975 - Christabelle Sethna\, University of Ottawa
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CONTACT:Chantal Nowak
DESCRIPTION:Travel is one of the central barriers to abortion access\; the
  further a woman has to travel for an abortion\, the less likely she is to
  obtain one and the more likely she is to be young and underprivileged. Ye
 t\, this kind of travel persists. Often conducted over long range and acro
 ss domestic and international borders\, “abortion tourism” remains a c
 ommonplace transnational phenomenon. Today\, the case of Irish women who t
 ravel to the UK to access legal abortion services is familiar to many. How
 ever\, travel for abortion services has a much longer history. This presen
 tation is based on Christabelle Sethna’s research\, funded by the Social
  Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada\, which tracks women
 ’s domestic and international travel for abortion services. It focuses o
 n the complex transnational geopolitical and biopolitical issues raised on
 ce women began to travel to Britian for abortion services after the passag
 e of the 1967 Abortion Act\, a piece of legislation that did not include r
 esidency qualifications. The presentation explores the reasons why non-nat
 ional women travelled to Britain\, and to London in particular\, for legal
  abortions in the 1960s and 1970s and discusses the transgressive relation
 ships that exist between the crossing of sexual\, legal and geographical b
 orders. The presentation also opens up for timely consideration the fraugh
 t meanings of residency and travel across borders in the UK.\n\nDr. Christ
 abelle Sethna is Professor in the Institute of Feminist and Gender Studies
 \, University of Ottawa. She is a historian who researches the history of 
 sex education\, contraception and abortion as well as animal representatio
 ns. Her latest book\, co-authored with Steve Hewitt\, is Just Watch Us: RC
 MP Surveillance of the Women’s Liberation Movement in Cold War Canada (M
 cGill-Queen’s University Press 2018).
LOCATION:Seminar Room E (second floor)\, 17 Mill Lane\, Cambridge\, CB2 1R
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