{"product_id":"abortion-and-ireland-david-ralph-9783030586911","title":"Abortion and Ireland: How the 8th Was Overthrown","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Ralph\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 303058691X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783030586911\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Palgrave Pivot\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/22\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 133\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.72lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.38d","brand":"David Ralph","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45897067954431,"sku":"9783030586911","price":64.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e3debd77-a98e-4f2e-baa8-cdc52d0efb46.jpg?v=1721373071","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/abortion-and-ireland-david-ralph-9783030586911","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}