Secret History of Sterilisation - Audio

The Open University

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’. In some countries, dark, forbidding institutions enforced sterilisations and actively prevented social and sexual activity amo...Read More

The history of the sterilisation of women with learning disabilities is highly controversi...Read More