In Ireland We 'Love Both'? Heteroactivism in Ireland's Anti-Repeal Ephemera

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3945936
AutoresK Browne (0000-0002-5816-226X), Catherine Jean Nash (0000-0003-1215-7200)
Año2020
Volumen124
Número1
Páginas51-67
Fecha de publicación2020-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaFeminist Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0141-7789 • E-ISSN: 1466-4380
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0141778919895262
OpenAlexW3012900285
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas15
Referencias citadas42

Resistances to sexual and gender rights are shifting and need new theorisations. This article develops the analytical concept of heteroactivism by exploring its relation to abortion debates in Ireland. Heteroactivism as an analytical category examines resistances to sexual and gender rights that seek to reiterate the place of the heteronormative family (both in terms of gender norms and heterosexuality) through activisms that can stand against new legislative orders. The article investigates three texts to explore how the 'Vote No' campaign in Ireland discussed 'loving both', but in the main thrust of the poster campaign instead focused on the foetus as an 'unborn child'. Using textual and visual analysis, we show the creation of Ireland through seeking to 'love both' and create a distinction from the dangers, and foreign contagion, of England. The article concludes by arguing that ongoing work is needed to explore heteroactivism and its diverse manifestations, including in abortion debates

Abortion · Feminism · Heteronormativity · Heterosexuality · Homosexuality · Human sexuality · Legislature · Political science · Population · Relation (database) · Repeal · Reproductive health · Reproductive rights · Sociology · Sodomy · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Irish and British Studies · Law