- Senior Research Fellow, Social Inquiry, La Trobe University
Erica is a Senior Lecturer at La Trobe University. She has published widely on the cultural, legal, and health system regulation of abortion, with particular attention to the intersections of regulatory frameworks with gender, race, and class.
She is the author of *Happy Abortions* (Bloomsbury, 2017), a cultural history of abortion in Australia from 1969 to 2008. She is currently completing her second monograph, *Institutional Abortion Stigma*, which draws on an ARC-funded study of hospital-based abortion provision to examine how sexism and racism embedded in healthcare systems perpetuate social disadvantage.
Experience
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2019–presentLecturer, La Trobe University
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2015–2019Lecturer, The University of Adelaide
Education
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2014The University of Melbourne, PhD
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2011The University of Melbourne, MA
Publications
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2024'Imagine if we had an actual service ...': a qualitative exploration of abortion access challenges in Australian rural primary care, Rural and Remote Health
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2024Abortion stigma, abortion exceptionalism, and medical curricula, Health Sociology Review
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2024Abortion, decriminalisation and the medico-legal paradigm, Social Science and Medicine
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2024When history won’t go away: abortion decriminalisation, residual criminalisation and continued exceptionalism, History Australia
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2022Maintaining exceptionality: Interrogating gestational limits for abortion, Social and legal studies
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2020Abortion at the edges: politics, practices, performances, Women's Studies International Forum
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2020Abortion stigma as a social process, Women's Studies International Forum
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2018More than Stigma: Counter narratives of abortion (with Barbara Baird), Sexualities
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2017Happy Abortions: Our Bodies in the Era of Choice, London: Zed Books
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2017Feminism, Foetocentrism and the Politics of Abortion Choice in 1970s Australia, Palgrave McMillan
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2016Mourned Choices and Grievable Lives: How the Anti-abortion Movement Came to Define the Abortion Experience’, Gender and History
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2015‘“Too Many”: Anxious White Nationalism and the Biopolitics of Abortion in Contemporary Australian History, Australian Feminist Studies
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2015Choice-makers or Failures: Providing a Genealogy of Abortion Shame and Shaming, Law & History
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2014Abortion, Selfishness and Happy Objects, Routledge
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