TEN RILLINGTON PLACE AND THE CHANGING POLITICS OF ABORTION IN MODERN BRITAIN.

IF 0.8 1区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY
Emma L Jones, Neil Pemberton
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This article addresses the social, cultural, and political history of backstreet abortion in post-war Britain, focusing on the murders of Beryl Evans and her daughter Geraldine, at Ten Rillington Place in 1949. It shows how the commonplace connection of John Christie to abortion and Beryl Evan's death was not a given in the wider public, legal, political, and forensic imagination of the time, reflecting the multi-layered and shifting meanings of abortion from the date of the original trials in the late 1940s and 1950s, through the subsequent judicial and literary reinvestigations of the case in the 1960s, to its cinematic interpretation in the 1970s. Exploring the language of abortion used in these different contexts, the article reveals changes in the gendering of abortionists, the increasing power and presence of abortion activists and other social reformers, the changing representation of working-class women and men, and the increasing critique of the practice of backstreet abortion. The case is also made for a kind of societal blind spot on abortion at the time of both the Evans and Christie trials; in particular, a reluctance to come to terms with the concept of the male abortionist, which distorted the criminal investigations and the trials themselves. Only when public acceptance for legalizing abortion grew in the more liberal climate of the 1960s and beyond did a revisionist understanding of the murder of Beryl Evans, in which abortion came to be positioned as a central element, gain a sustained hearing.

十灵顿地方和现代英国堕胎政治的变化。
这篇文章讲述了战后英国后街堕胎的社会、文化和政治历史,重点是1949年发生在Ten Rillington Place的Beryl Evans和她的女儿Geraldine的谋杀案。它展示了约翰·克里斯蒂与堕胎和贝丽尔·埃文之死之间的普遍联系,在当时更广泛的公众、法律、政治和法医想象中是如何不被赋予的,反映了堕胎的多层次和不断变化的含义,从20世纪40年代末和50年代的原始审判开始,到20世纪60年代对此案的司法和文学重新调查,再到20世纪70年代的电影诠释。这篇文章探讨了在这些不同的语境中使用的堕胎语言,揭示了堕胎者性别的变化,堕胎活动家和其他社会改革者的力量和存在的增加,工人阶级男女代表的变化,以及对后街堕胎实践的越来越多的批评。在埃文斯和克里斯蒂审判的时候,社会对堕胎的盲点也存在;特别是不愿意接受男性堕胎医生的概念,这扭曲了刑事调查和审判本身。直到20世纪60年代及以后,公众对堕胎合法化的接受度在更为自由的氛围中不断提高,对贝丽尔·埃文斯(Beryl Evans)谋杀案的修正主义理解(堕胎被定位为核心因素)才获得了持续的关注。
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Historical Journal
Historical Journal Multiple-
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期刊介绍: The Historical Journal continues to publish papers on all aspects of British, European, and world history since the fifteenth century. The best contemporary scholarship is represented. Contributions come from all parts of the world. The journal aims to publish some thirty-five articles and communications each year and to review recent historical literature, mainly in the form of historiographical reviews and review articles. The journal provides a forum for younger scholars making a distinguished debut as well as publishing the work of historians of established reputation.
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