Leslie's Full Academic Publication List

 Scribe's Anti-Christmas Book of the Year

19 Aug 2010

Leslie chapter on abortion is part of a stunning line-up of well and lesser known writers exploring atheism the Australian way. Don't miss contributions from Age writer Michael Bachelard, the ABC science writer Robyn Williams, former Democrats Senator Lyn Alison, and many, many more. Pre-order your copy of The Australian Book of Atheism today.

 Leslie Replies to Kate Gleeson

13 Sep 2008

In an article in the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, academic lawyer Kate Gleeson takes Leslie to task for comments she made on radio regarding the importance of reforming Victoria's abortion law. In this article, in the same edition of the Journal of Bioethical inquiry, Leslie replies to Gleeson's criticisms.

 Who's the Father? Rethinking the Moral 'Crime' of 'Paternity Fraud'

25 Aug 2008

In Australia, men's mobilisation around paternity fraud has led to numerous father-favouring changes to family law. Despite this, feminists have been slow to interrogate discrepant paternity discourse. In this paper, I analyse and respond to the empirical and normative assertions contained in the paternity fraud charge.

 Is Genetic Screening and Therapy Making Us a Sorting Society?

1 Jan 2008

In her chapter in The Sorting Society: The ethics of genetic screening and therapy (ed. Loane Skene and Janna Thompson), Leslie advocates a balance between the rights of parents to decide if, when and what sort of children they bring into the world, and the need for social equity and justice.

 The Australian Pro-Choice Movement and the Struggle for Legal Clarity, Liberal Laws and Liberal Access: Two Case Studies

30 Dec 2007

In this chapter, written with Cait Calcutt (p. 41-70), Leslie analyses, and seeks to draw lessons for contemporary Australian pro-choice activists, of significant legislative changes to abortion laws in Western Australia and the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) in 1998. The chapter is part of a larger collection undertaken in phase one of the Johannesburg Initiative, an international project aimed at building capacity amongst pro-choice advocates.

 Declining Marriage Rates and Gender Inequity in Social Institutions: Towards an Adequately Complex Explanation for Childlessness

4 Dec 2007

A recent newspaper report pitted McDonald's and Birrell's explanations for Australia's below-replacement fertility against each other. In this article, Cannold presents data from qualitative research into the experience and understandings of 35 childless women aged 28 to 42.

 Who Owns A Dead Man's Sperm?

4 Apr 2007

Leslie's article in the British Journal of Medical Ethics about postmortem or posthumous sperm donation.

 Artificial Wombs are the Subject of a New book edited by Scott Gelfand and John Shook
28 Mar 2007

Leslie's chapter in the book Ectogenesis: Artificial womb technology and the future of human reproduction published by Rodopi in 2006 is called "Women, ectogenesis and ethical theory". To discuss obtaining a copy of this chapter contact Leslie.

 

 The Ethics of Neonatal Circumcision: Helping Parents To Decide

11 Apr 2006

Leslie's chapter on male circumcision appears in Cutting to the Core: Exploring the Ethics of Contested Surgery by Rowman & Littlefield.

 Read Leslie's chapter on Paternity Fraud in in Sperm Wars
1 Jan 2005

Walking Wallets and One-Stop Sperm Shops: How Men Fear That Women See Them in the Postmodern Reproductive Age was published in Sperm Wars: the rights and wrongs of reproduction, edited by Heather Grace Jones and Dr Maggie Kirkman and published in 2005 by ABC Books. Read the chapter.

 

 Read Leslie on Fatherhood, and Lowering the Temperature of Debates About the Use of Donor Sperm by Single Women and Lesbians

1 Nov 2002

This peer-reviewed article, Redefining Fatherhood: Lowering the temperature of debates about the use of donor sperm by single women and lesbians, first appeared in the Australian Journal of Professional and Applied Ethics.

 Understanding and Responding to Anti-choice Women-centred Strategies

1 Jan 2002

This paper discusses the rise and use of a 'woman-centred' anti-choice strategy to oppose abortion in Australia and the USA. It argues that this strategy seeks to imitate and exploit aspects of the pro-choice, women-centred position on abortion. The strategy contends that women do not really choose abortion but are pressured into it by others and then experience a range of negative effects afterwards, including an increased risk of breast cancer, infertility and post-abortion grief. Rather than evaluate the truth of such claims, this paper seeks to explicate from a feminist perspective the design, intent and implications of this strategy and how it is being used in legislative tactics, counselling, law suits and anti-choice activism. Such an analysis is necessary for pro-choice efforts to respond effectively to this new strategy, not only through literal rebuttals based on evidence, but also through responses that counter its ideological power.

 The Australian Pro-Choice Movement and the Struggle for Legal Clarity, Liberal Laws and Liberal Access

1 Nov 2000

The Extended Australian Report of the "The Johannesburg Initiative"

 Women's Response to Ectogenesis and the Relevance of Severance Abortion Theory
18 Dec 1992
 
What, no baby? What, No Baby? takes us on journey into the lives of contemporary women who plan to have it all - marriage, motherhood and work - yet have been derailed by reluctant men, insatiably demanding jobs and ever-climbing expectations of what it takes to be a "good" mother.
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The Abortion Myth book cover The Abortion Myth forges a new women-centred abortion ethic capable of preserving a woman's right to control her body and her freedom to choose or reject motherhood.
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