Abortion and Ireland
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-58691-1 (ISBN)
This book asks the crucial question of how it came to pass that on the 25 May 2018, the Irish electorate voted by a landslide in favour of changing its abortion legislation that, for the previous thirty-five years, had been one of the most restrictive regimes in Europe. The author shows how, alongside traditional campaigning tactics such as street demonstrations, door-to-door canvassing, and the distribution of pro-choice merchandise and information leaflets, a key strategy of pro-choice advocacy groups was to encourage first-person abortion story-sharing by women in their efforts to repeal the Eighth Amendment, which had effectively banned abortion provision in the country. The book argues that a normalizing of abortion talk took place in the lead-up to the referendum, with women speaking publicly in unprecedented numbers about their abortion histories. These women storytellers were mirroring certain pro-choice movements in other contexts, where a new 'sound it loud, say it proud'narrative around abortion experiences has emerged as a central contemporary strategy for destigmatizing abortion discourse.
Students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including law, gender studies, sociology, and human geography, will find this book of interest.
lt;b>David Ralph is an Assistant Professor of Sociology, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. He is the author of Work, Family and Commuting in Europe (Palgrave, 2015).
1. Introduction.- 2. A history of the Irish abortion debate.- 3. First-person abortion story-sharing as key pro-choice strategy.- 4. Repealing the Eighth and pro-choice Irish women's abortion testimonies.- 5. Conclusion
| Erscheinungsdatum | 23.10.2020 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | IX, 133 p. 1 illus. |
| Verlagsort | Cham |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 148 x 210 mm |
| Gewicht | 319 g |
| Themenwelt | Recht / Steuern |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie | |
| Schlagworte | Gender Studies • Human Rights • Pro-choice • Reproductive rights • Stigma |
| ISBN-10 | 3-030-58691-X / 303058691X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-030-58691-1 / 9783030586911 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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