Camilla Fitzsimons

Repealed

Ireland's Unfinished Fight for Reproductive Rights

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Produktbeschreibung

A celebration and analysis of a 35-year long grassroots movement that successfully overturned the ban on abortion in Ireland

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pluto Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 134mm x 215mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 247g
• ISBN-13: 9780745344270
• ISBN-10: 0745344275
• Artikelnr.: 61499805

Autorenporträt

Camilla Fitzsimons works in the Department of Adult and Community Education at Maynooth University. She is the author of Community Education and Neoliberalism (Palgrave, 2017) and is on the editorial board of the peer-reviewed journal Studies in the Education of Adults. She is also guest editor for the European Journal of Social Science Education (2020). Sinead Kennedy is the co-founder of The Coalition to Repeal the Eighth and an executive member of Together for Yes. She works in the Department of English at Maynooth University. She is the co-editor of The Abortion Papers, Ireland, and has written for publications including Jacobin.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Ruth CoppingerIntroduction: The unsung labourers behind the stage1. Reframing the 'Pro-choice' paradigm2. Ireland's dark history on reproductive justice (with Sinead Kennedy)3. After the Eighth, the slow movement for Repeal (by Sinead Kennedy)4. No quiet revolution - the grassroots gathers5. 'We love the cause - but we're not so happy 'bout the message!'6. Organising the ranks - Together for Yes take charge7. 2018 to the present day8. We're tired! Activist burnout and the toll of Repeal9. Ireland's reproductive rights movement todayConclusion: Beyond a rights-based approach