Prudence Flowers

(MENAFN- The Conversation)

• Senior Lecturer in US History, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Flinders University

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My work focuses on social movement activism, modern conservatism, medicine and public health, and the politics of gender, sexuality, and the body. I am particularly interested in abortion and family planning, both as elements of health care and as triggers for polarising social movement formation. I completed undergraduate and postgraduate study at the University of Melbourne. I am a Senior Lecturer in US History at Flinders University in Adelaide and the President of the Australian and New Zealand American Studies Association.

I am currently working on several projects, including (i) the US, the Marshall Islands, and nuclear legacies, (iii) abortion politics in 21st century Australia, and (iii) provision of and access to abortion after 20 weeks' gestation in the US, Australia, the UK, and Canada.

Experience

• 2021–present Senior lecturer in US History, Flinders University
• 2009–2020 Lecturer in US History, Flinders University

Education

• 2009 University of Melbourne, PhD
• 2003 University of Melbourne, BA (Hons)

Publications

• 2025 The Reagan Revolution, Routledge
• 2022 When more is less: Emergency powers, COVID-19 and abortion in South Australia, 2020, International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy
• 2022 Reproductive rights at home? Prohibiting telehealth abortion in South Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic, Gender, Place and Culture
• 2021 Late Termination of Pregnancy: An Internationally Comparative Study of Public Health Policy, The Law and the Experiences of Providers,
• 2020 The purists and the pragmatists: The right-to-life movement and the problem of the exceptional abortion in the United States, 1980s–2010s, Women's Studies International Forum
• 2019 'Voodoo biology': the right-to-life campaign against family planning programs in the United States in the 1980s, Women's History Review
• 2019 The Right-to-Life Movement, the Reagan Administration, and the Politics of Abortion, Palgrave Macmillan
• 2018 Fighting the 'hurricane winds' of abortion liberalization: Americans United for Life and the struggle for self-definition before Roe v. Wade, The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics, and Culture
• 2017 'A Prolife Disaster': The Reagan Administration and the Nomination of Sandra Day O'Connor, Journal of Contemporary History
• 2006 White Ribboners and the Ideology of Separate Spheres, 1860s-1890s, Australasian Journal of American Studies

Grants and Contracts

• 2018 Catherine Helen Spence Memorial Scholarship Role: Chief Investigator Funding Source: Department of Human Services, State Government of South Australia

Professional Memberships

• Australian and New Zealand American Studies Association
• Australian Women and Gender Studies Association
• Australian Historical Association

Research Areas

• Historical Studies (2103)

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