After Repeal

Kath Browne is a Professor of Geographies of Sexualities and Genders at University College Dublin. She has worked on Heteroactivism, LGBT equalities, lesbian geographies, gender transgressions and women's spaces. Her other publications include Ordinary in Brighton: LGBT, Activisms and the City (with Leela Bakshi, 2013), Queer Spiritual Spaces (2010), and the co-edited collections Lesbian Feminism (2019), Geographies of Sex and Sexualities (2016) and Lesbian Geographies (2015).Sydney Calkin is a Lecturer in Geography and a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Queen Mary University of London. Her current research investigates the changing geographies of abortion access and the impact of transnational feminist social movements for reproductive justice. She is also the author of Human Capital in Gender and Development (2018).

• Introduction, Sydney Calkin and Kath BrownePart I: The Politics of Repeal1. The 2018 abortion referendum: over before it began! Theresa Reidy2. Explaining repeal: a long-term view, Linda Connolly3. “The only lawyer on the panel”: anti-choice lawfare in the battle for abortion law reform, Fiona de Londras and Máiréad Enright4. Abortion pills in Ireland and beyond: what can the 8th Amendment referendum tell us about the future of self-managed abortion? Sydney Calkin5. Of trust and mistrust: the politics of repeal, Elzbieta Drazkiewicz-Grodzicka and Máire Ní MhórdhaPart II: Campaigns and Campaigning6. “Enough judgement”: reflections on campaigning for repeal in rural Ireland, Mary McGill7. Campaigning for choice: canvassing as feminist pedagogy in Dublin Bay North, Niamh McDonald, Kate Antosik-Parsons, Karen E. Till, Jack Callan and Gerry Kearns8. #Tá: pro-choice activism in the Irish language community, Lisa Nic an Bhreithimh9. Maser’s ‘Repeal the 8th’ mural: the power of public art in the age of social media, Lorna O’Hara10. Repealing a ‘legacy of shame’: press coverage of emotional geographies of secrecy and shame in Ireland’s abortion debate, Eric OlundPart III: Futures: Ireland and Beyond11. Placing the Catholic Church: the moral landscape of repealing the 8th, Richard Scriven12. Losing Ireland: heteroactivist responses to the 8th Amendment in Canada and the UK, Kath Browne and Catherine Jean Nash13. The primacy of place: in vitro ‘unborn’ and the 8th Amendment, Noëlle Cotter14. Northern Ireland after repealing the 8th: democratic challenges, Lisa Smyth15. Reflections after the Irish referendum: abortion, the Catholic Church and pro-choice mobilization in Poland, Dorota Szelewa

In an impressive collection of cross-disciplinary essays, After Repeal tackles the fraught history of abortion in Ireland and offers valuable, engrossing and often challenging analyses of the battle for the right to choose leading to the landslide victory for repeal of the 8th Amendment in 2018.