Abortion and Ireland How the 8th Was Overthrown 1st Edition by David Ralph ISBN 303058691X 978-3030586911

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ISBN 10: 303058691X

ISBN 13: 978-3030586911 

Author: David Ralph 

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.

Table of contents:

Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. A History of the Irish Abortion Debate
Chapter 3. First-Person Abortion Story-Sharing as Key Pro-choice Strategy
Chapter 4. Repealing the Eighth and Pro-Choice Irish Women’s Abortion Testimonies

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