The Battle to Control Female Fertility in Modern Ireland

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