Salley Gardens

Jo Murphy-Lawless is a sociologist and Research Fellow in the Centre for Health Evaluation, Methodology Research and Evidence Synthesis, NUI Galway and a member of the Elephant Collective. She has a lifelong commitment to establishing reproductive justice and to eradicating social and economic inequalities.Laury Oaks is Professor and Chair of the Department of Feminist Studies and affiliated with the Department of Sociology and Department of Anthropology at University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research focuses on sexual and reproductive politics. Laury was introduced to Jo while doing research in Dublin on the X Case in summer 1992, and they have sustained a dynamic connection across the miles and decades.

• Contents: «In a field by the river my love and I did stand»: Changing Social Forms, Modernity and Resistance – «Young women saying «I love having lots of one- night stands» is still not quite acceptable»: Making Sense of Sexual Experiences – «And she didn’t know what to do»: The Many Obstacles to Sexual Freedom – «It’s not the right time for me, I can’t go through with this pregnancy. And it should be free choice»: Abortion as the Loneliest Decision – «It’s not just about having children – how can you build a life?»: Motherhood Becomes Another Country – Loss, Athwartness, Resistance – Note on the Cover Artist.