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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