Embodying Irish Abortion Reform
Bodies, Emotions, and Feminist Activism
Seiten
2024
Bristol University Press (Verlag)
9781529236439 (ISBN)
Bristol University Press (Verlag)
9781529236439 (ISBN)
This book explores the experiences of people affected by Ireland's constitutional abortion ban. Through in-depth research and interviews, the author uncovers how the 8th Amendment led women and gestating people live their bodies as "future aborting bodies," and how the need to 'prepare' for crisis pregnancies shaped everyday practices.
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.
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.
Aideen O’Shaughnessy is a Lecturer in Sociology in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Lincoln. Her research interests include embodiment, emotions, affect, reproduction and feminist protest movements.
1. Introduction
2. Living Under the 8th: the Gendered Burden of ‘Abortion Work’
3. Tracing the ‘Embodied Infrastructure’ of the Movement to Repeal the 8th Amendment.
4. On the Physicality of Protest: The Politics of Revelation
5. Embodying Respectability: The Politics of Concealment
6. Changed Bodies? Life After Repeal
7. Conclusion
| Erscheinungsdatum | 03.09.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Gender and Sociology |
| Zusatzinfo | Not illustrated |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781529236439 / 9781529236439 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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