The Battle to Control Female Fertility in Modern Ireland
The battle for legal contraception challenged key tenets of Irish identity: Catholicism, large families, traditional gender roles, and sexual puritanism. It is a story of gender, religion, social change, and failing efforts to reaffirm Irish moral exceptionalism.
Mary E. Daly (University College Dublin)
- Cambridge University Press
- 9781009314893
- 334 pages
- €93.37
- Hardback
- United Kingdom
- British & Irish history