New PDF release: Abortion and Nation: The Politics of Reproduction in

By Lisa Smyth

Abortion politics are contentious and divisive in lots of elements of the area, yet nowhere extra so than in eire. Abortion and country examines the relationship among abortion politics and hegemonic struggles over nationwide id and the geographical region within the Irish Republic. Situating the abortion query within the worldwide context of human rights politics, in addition to foreign social routine, Lisa Smyth analyses the formation and transformation of abortion politics in eire from the early Eighties to the current day. She considers even if the moving connections among morality, rights and nationhood promise a brand new period of gender equality within the context of geographical region citizenship. The booklet offers a brand new sociological framework by which the importance of clash over abortion and reproductive freedom is hooked up to clash over nationwide identification. It additionally bargains a particular in-depth attention of the relationship among gender and nationhood, fairly when it comes to its impression on women's prestige as electorate; in the geographical region; in the eu Union; and as individuals of a world civil society.

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