Embodying Irish Abortion Reform
eBook - ePub

Embodying Irish Abortion Reform

Bodies, Emotions, and Feminist Activism

  1. 208 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Embodying Irish Abortion Reform

Bodies, Emotions, and Feminist Activism

About this book

Embodying Irish Abortion Reform has been shortlisted for the 2025 BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize.

Offering a unique perspective, this book explores the lived, embodied and affective experiences of reproductive rights activists living under, and mobilizing against, Ireland's constitutional abortion ban.

Through qualitative research and in-depth interviews with activists, the author exposes the subtle influence of the 8th Amendment on Irish women and their (reproductive) bodies, whether or not they have ever attempted to access a clandestine abortion.

It explains how the everyday embodied practices, bodily labours and affective experiences of women and gestating people were shaped by the 8th amendment and through the need to 'prepare' for crisis pregnancies. In addition, it reveals the integral role of women's bodies and emotions in changing the political and social landscape in Ireland, through the historical transformation of the country's abortion laws.

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Information

Publisher
Bristol University Press
Year
2024
Edition
1
eBook ISBN
9781529236453
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Gender Studies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Dedication
  7. Table of Contents
  8. Series Editors’ Preface
  9. About the Author
  10. Acknowledgements
  11. 1 Introduction
  12. 2 Living under the 8th: The Gendered Burden of ‘Abortion Work’
  13. 3 Tracing the ‘Embodied Infrastructure’ of the Movement to Repeal the 8th Amendment
  14. 4 On the Physicality of Protest: The Politics of Revelation
  15. 5 Embodying Respectability: The Politics of Concealment
  16. 6 Changed Bodies? Life after Repeal
  17. 7 Conclusion
  18. Notes
  19. References
  20. Index

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