About the editors
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 womens 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 ).
AFTER REPEAL
Rethinking Abortion Politics
EDITED BY KATH BROWNE AND SYDNEY CALKIN
After Repeal: Rethinking Abortion Politics was first published in 2020 by Zed Books Ltd, The Foundry, Oval Way, London SE RR, UK.
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All author royalties on behalf of Kath Browne and Sydney Calkin and creative royalties on behalf of Anna Cosgrave donated to the Abortion Support Network.
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Contents
Sydney Calkin and Kath Browne
Theresa Reidy |
Linda Connolly |
Fiona de Londras and Mirad Enright |
Sydney Calkin |
Elbieta Drkiewicz-Grodzicka and Mire N Mhrdha |
Mary McGill |
Niamh McDonald, Kate Antosik-Parsons, Karen E. Till, Gerry Kearns and Jack Callan |
Lisa Nic an Bhreithimh |
Lorna OHara |
Eric Olund |
Richard Scriven |
Kath Browne and Catherine Jean Nash |
Nolle Cotter |
Lisa Smyth |
Dorota Szelewa |
is a Research Associate of the Humanities Institute at University College Dublin.
is a Human Geography PhD student working on reproductive rights in the Department of Geography at Maynooth University.
is a Professor of Sociology at Maynooth University.
completed a PhD on the topic of assisted human reproduction in Trinity College Dublins School of Social Work and Social Policy.
is Professor of Global Legal Studies at the University of Birmingham.
is a Lecturer in Anthropology at Maynooth University.
is a Reader in Feminist Legal Studies at the University of Birmingham.
is a Professor in Geography at Maynooth University.
is a working-class mother, socialist, feminist and activist who believes in the power of grassroots organising to create change.
is a researcher and writer based in the west of Ireland.
is a Professor in Geography at Brock University.
is a Lecturer in the Centre for Teaching and Learning at Maynooth University.
is a campaigner and social activist from Dublin who served as the Communications Officer of Gaeil ar son Rogha , the Irish language branch of the Repeal campaign.
is a PhD Candidate in Geography at Maynooth University.
is a Lecturer in Geography at the University of Sheffield.
is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Government and Politics at University College Cork.
is a Lecturer in Geography at University College Cork.
is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Queens University Belfast.
is a Lecturer in the School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice at University College Dublin.
is a Professor in Geography at Maynooth University.
This book emerged from a workshop at Maynooth University in November 2018 . In the wake of the May 2018 repeal vote, we wanted to bring together scholars from across the social sciences and humanities who could shed light on the campaign, the vote, and the possibilities for the future after the th Amendment. The workshop was an intensive one-day discussion where authors presented their work, gave each other feedback and took advice on how to improve the chapters published here. This book has therefore been a collective process. Several people who participated in the workshop do not have chapters in the volume, but we are sincerely grateful for their feedback and engagement, which strengthened the work as a whole. Each chapter in the book has been shaped by its authors and feedback from numerous other readers.
At Maynooth, we are especially grateful for the support of Linda Connolly, Gerry Kearns and Mary Gilmartin who supported this workshop and encouraged us to pursue the book project. Additional thanks go to Sinad Kennedy, Claire McGing, Fiona Murphy, Louise Maguire and Aileen O'Carroll for their participation in the workshop and its organizing stages. We thank the Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute (MUSSI) who hosted and funded the workshop and Maynooth University Geography Department who provided additional funding for the day; their support made the workshop and subsequent collaboration possible. We also wish to thank Anne Hamilton Black, Una Horton and Neasa Hogan for their assistance.
At Durham, our thanks go to Cynthia Kamwengo for her excellent work preparing this manuscript for publication. The Durham University Geography Department Research Development Fund provided funding for the preparation of this manuscript. Sydney Calkin would like to acknowledge the funding of the Leverhulme Trust, who supported several research trips to Ireland that made this collaboration possible.
We are grateful for the support of Kim Walker at Zed Books, Gayle Green, Melanie Scagliarini, Ger Hanley, and several anonymous reviewers.
We thank Anna Cosgrave of the Repeal Project for allowing her iconic Repeal design to be used on the cover of this book. As Mary McGill writes in this book, the Repeal jumpers created by Anna helped break the silence that had stifled debate on abortion in Ireland and, in doing so, gave visibility and vitality to the pro-repeal movement. We are grateful for permission to reproduce her design.
