Contraception and Modern Ireland

ISBN-13: 9781108839105 / Twarda / 2023 / 350 str.

Laura (University of Strathclyde) Kelly

Opis

The first history of contraception in twentieth-century Ireland to explore the lived experiences of Irish men and women and activists.

Recenzje

'… this book is full of important testimony about endurance … absorbing, disturbing, and revealing.' Diarmaid Ferriter

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Access to contraception and family planning information in Ireland from the 1920s to the 1950s; 2. Sexual knowledge and morality from the 1940s to the 1970s; 3. Birth control practices and attitudes to contraception in the 1960s and 1970s; 4. The pill, women's agency and doctor-patient relationships in the 1960s and 1970s; 5. The Catholic Church, 'sympathetic' priests and religious influences on family planning after Humane Vitae; 6. Family planning clinics and activism in the 1970s; 7. Feminist campaigns for free, safe and legal contraception in the 1970s; 8. Campaigns against contraception in 1970s and 1980s Ireland; 9. Family planning after the Family Planning Act: access to contraception in 1980s and 1990s Ireland; Conclusion; Appendix.