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Abortion and Ireland - How the 8th Was Overthrown (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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Abortion and Ireland - How the 8th Was Overthrown (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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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.
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