Researching African Histories of Sexuality: In Praise of Excavating the Erotic

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Susanne M. Klausen, The Pennsylvania State University

Susanne M. Klausen is the Julia Gregg Brill Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at The Pennsylvania State University and a senior research associate in the Department of History at the University of Johannesburg. Her main areas of research are the history of fertility politics in modern South Africa, nationalism and sexuality, and transnational movements for reproductive justice. She is the author of two books, Race, Maternity, and the Politics of Birth Control in South Africa, 1910–39 (2004) and Abortion under Apartheid: Nationalism, Sexuality, and Women’s Reproductive Rights in South Africa (2015).
Natasha Erlank, University of Johannesburg

Natasha Erlank is a professor in the Department of History at the University of Johannesburg and an adjunct research professor in the Department of History at Carleton University, Ottawa. Her research interests lie principally in the history of the gender, marriage, and sexuality within the broader context of colonialism and Christianity in Southern Africa. Her new work examines the history of reproductive health in Africa between the 1940s and the 1990s. It takes a comparative look at birth control policies and practices in the newly independent African states after the 1960s.