LEADER 03706nam 22006255 450 001 9910426050103321 005 20230728140245.0 010 $a9783030586928 010 $a3030586928 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-58692-8 035 $a(CKB)4100000011515487 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6381405 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-58692-8 035 $a(Perlego)3481789 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011515487 100 $a20201021d2020 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAbortion and Ireland $eHow the 8th Was Overthrown /$fby David Ralph 205 $a1st ed. 2020. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Pivot,$d2020. 215 $a1 online resource (IX, 133 p. 1 illus.) 225 1 $aPalgrave pivot 311 08$a9783030586911 311 08$a303058691X 327 $a1. 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. 330 $a"A vivid and bracing story of Irish women's successful struggle to overturn their country's prohibition on abortion. Abortion and Ireland recounts the longstanding effort by the Irish church and state to regulate women's reproductive lives. Ralph shows the power of women's public testimonies about untenable pregnancies and extralegal abortions in shaping the popular vote". Jeanne Marecek, Swarthmore College, USA This book asks the crucial question of how it came to pass that on the 25 May 2018, the Irish electorate voted by a landslide in favour of changing its abortion legislation that, for the previous thirty-five years, had been one of the most restrictive regimes in Europe. The author shows how, alongside traditional campaigning tactics such as street demonstrations, door-to-door canvassing, and the distribution of pro-choice merchandise and information leaflets, a key strategy of pro-choice advocacy groups was to encourage first-person abortion story-sharing by women in their efforts to repeal the Eighth Amendment, which had effectively banned abortion provision in the country. The book argues that a normalizing of abortion talk took place in the lead-up to the referendum, with women speaking publicly in unprecedented numbers about their abortion histories. These women storytellers were mirroring certain pro-choice movements in other contexts, where a new 'sound it loud, say it proud' narrative around abortion experiences has emerged as a central contemporary strategy for destigmatizing abortion discourse. Students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including law, gender studies, sociology, and human geography, will find this book of interest. David Ralph is Assistant Professor of Sociology, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. He is the author of Work, Family and Commuting in Europe (Palgrave, 2015). . 410 0$aPalgrave pivot. 606 $aSex 606 $aLaw 606 $aSocial structure 606 $aEquality 606 $aGender Studies 606 $aLaw 606 $aSocial Structure 615 0$aSex. 615 0$aLaw. 615 0$aSocial structure. 615 0$aEquality. 615 14$aGender Studies. 615 24$aLaw. 615 24$aSocial Structure. 676 $a342.415084 676 $a342.417084 700 $aRalph$b David$0931553 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910426050103321 996 $aAbortion and Ireland$92095521 997 $aUNINA