{"product_id":"9783030586911","title":"Abortion and Ireland: How the 8th Was Overthrown","description":"\u003ch1\u003eAbortion and Ireland: How the 8th Was Overthrown\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eRalph, David\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStudents and scholars across a range of disciplines, including law, gender studies, sociology, and human geography, will find this book of interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Palgrave Pivot\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2020-10-22\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9783030586911\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-3-030-58692-8\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 210cm x148cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 133\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer International Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45385526313100,"sku":"9783030586911","price":58.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783030586911.jpg?v=1776048239","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9783030586911","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}