David Ralph: Abortion and Ireland

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Beschreibung

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.

Über den Autor

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).

Zusammenfassung

Provides both a look back at how the stunning Repeal victory was achieved as well as offering a glimpse forward for those still struggling to achieve reproductive rights elsewhere

Traces the history of the silencing of women's voices around abortion in Ireland

Analyses the emergence of first-person abortion story sharing

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2020
Genre:	Recht , Sozialwissenschaften , Soziologie , Wirtschaft
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Buch
Inhalt:	ix 133 S. 1 s/w Illustr. 133 p. 1 illus.
ISBN-13:	9783030586911
ISBN-10:	303058691X
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Ralph, David
Auflage:	1st edition 2020
Hersteller:	Springer International Publishing
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße:	216 x 153 x 13 mm
Von/Mit:	David Ralph
Erscheinungsdatum:	22.10.2020
Gewicht:	0,308 kg