Four Pieces on Repeal: Notes on Art, Aesthetics and the Struggle Against Ireland’s Abortion Law

Feminist Review 124 (1):104-123 (2020)
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Abstract

The Repeal campaign articulated new and transformative relationships between law, reproduction and the political in Ireland. During the campaign, ordinary people took ownership of and participated in mutual teaching and critique of law on a wide scale. Art, along these lines, was often used to document and archive the injustices worked by the 8th Amendment. However, art also became a means of imagining law otherwise. In this piece, I use Jacques Rancière’s work on the relationship between aesthetics and politics to analyse artistic contributions to feminist legal discourses associated with Repeal.

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Mairead Enright
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Dissensus: On Politics and Aesthetics.Jacques Ranciere - 2010 - Continuum. Edited by Steve Corcoran.
On the shores of politics.Jacques Rancière - 1995 - London: Verso. Edited by Liz Heron.
On Beauty and Being Just.Elaine Scarry - 1999 - Princeton University Press.

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