Secret History of Sterilisation - Audio

The history of the sterilisation of women with learning disabilities is highly controversial and remains, to a large extent, a secret. Preventing intellectually disabled women from having children was actively canvassed across the Western world in the early 20th century as a solution to the ‘problem of mental deficiency’.

  • 15 minutes 12 seconds
    A Secret History of Sterilisation
    A history told by the survivors of sterilisation.
    16 September 2010, 2:18 pm
  • Transcript -- A Secret History of Sterilisation
    Transcript -- A history told by the survivors of sterilisation.
    16 September 2010, 2:18 pm
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