Cara Delay
Biographic Data
| ID | 3742704 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cara Delay |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cara |
| FAMILY NAME | Delay |
| SIGNATURE | DELAY C |
| AFFILIATIONS | College of Charleston |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
"Other Things and Apparatuses": Abortion Techniques and Technologies in Pre- Roe South Carolina
This article centers the methods and materials of illegal abortion in South Carolina from criminalization (1883) to Roe v. Wade (1973) as they appeared in criminal trial records, coroners' reports, newspaper accounts, oral histories, and contemporary medical literature. The authors explore abortion techniques and technologies by analyzing the objects used in criminal abortion attempts. In particular, they focus on the common objects and substance…
"In All Circumstances": Home Births and Collaborative Health Care in Ireland, 1900-1950
This article examines the development of a collaborative model of home-based reproductive caregiving in Ireland from 1900 to 1950, focusing on the interactions of different practitioners in childbirth cases in the domestic sphere. In Ireland the move to obstetrics and trained nursing and midwifery was gradual, complicated by the needs and wants of ordinary women, who were reluctant to give up their trusted care givers and who actively sought to m…
Bodies and Deathscapes in Rural Catholic Ireland, 1800–1900
Scholars have long affirmed the importance of death in Irish history and culture. 1 Indeed, argues Guy Beiner, 'Modern Ireland is haunted by the memory of the dead' . 2 Recently, the roles of physical spaces and the landscape in Irish history also have garnered significant scholarly attention. 3 In studies of Ireland's post-Famine 'devotional revolution', 4 meanwhile, historians have illuminated the intricacies of Catholic Church renewal at the i…
Diane Urquhart. Irish Divorce: A History
Journal Article Diane Urquhart. Irish Divorce: A History. Get access Diane Urquhart. Irish Divorce: A History. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. vii, 285. Cloth $99.99. Cara Delay Cara Delay College of Charleston, USA Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 128, Issue 1, March 2023, Pages 465–466, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhad014 P…
‘Our Darkest Hour’: Women and Structural Violence under Ireland’s 8th Amendment
This article analyses women’s stories of violence in the context of the 8th Amendment. Our analysis of 773 anonymous women’s narratives from In Her Shoes reveals instances of rape and partner violence, health disparities, forced travel, barriers to care, and withholding of information by healthcare providers. Posts described the impact of structural violence on women’s medical care and lived realities. While scholars have produced essential analy…
Fashion and Faith: Girls and First Holy Communion in Twentieth-Century Ireland (c. 1920-1970)
With a focus on clothing, bodies, and emotions, this article examines girls' First Holy Communions in twentieth-century Ireland (c. 1920-1970), demonstrating that Irish girls, even at an early age, embraced opportunities to become both the center of attention and central faith actors in their religious communities through the ritual of Communion. A careful study of First Holy Communion, including clothing, reveals the importance of the ritual. Th…
Listening to Women: Understanding and Challenging Systems of Power to Achieve Reproductive Justice in South Carolina
South Carolina women, especially low‐income women and women of color, face greater disparities in reproductive health outcomes, including low birth weight, preterm delivery, infant mortality, and maternal mortality, than do women nationally. The purpose of this study was to utilize a reproductive justice framework in which reproduction is considered a woman‐centered experience (as opposed to a social issue to be solved) to understand the reproduc…
Understanding women’s postpartum sexual experiences
This study aimed to understand women's sexual health experiences, specifically knowledge, attitudes and norms related to sexual behaviour resumption during the postpartum period. Semi-structured, reproductive health-focused interviews (N = 70) were conducted among women aged 18 years or older (range: 19-78) residing in South Carolina. Findings demonstrated that women identified clinicians as most influential concerning when they should and could …
Ilana M. Löwy. Imperfect Pregnancies: A History of Birth Defects & Prenatal Diagnosis
A timely intervention in the history of biomedical technology, this monograph examines the remarkable trajectory of prenatal diagnosis in the modern “industrialized” world. In six chapters, Ilana M. Löwy, emerita senior research fellow at the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research, explores medical and technological advances that have facilitated the meteoric rise of routine prenatal testing over the past half century. She focus…
Irish women and the creation of modern Catholicism, 1850–1950
Irish Women and the Creation of Modern Catholicism is the only book-length study of lay Catholic women in modern Irish history. Focusing on the pivotal century from 1850 to 1950, it analyses the roles that middle-class, working-class, and rural poor lay women played in the evolution of Irish Catholicism and thus the creation of modern Irish identities. This project demonstrates that in an age of Church growth and renewal stretching from the after…
Pills, potions, and purgatives: Women and abortion methods in Ireland, 1900-1950
This article examines women's efforts to induce miscarriage in Ireland (the Irish Free State, Éire, and the Republic) from 1900 to 1950. It demonstrates that, when possible, Irish women avoided surgical procedures, preferring instead to consume pills, potions, and purgatives to cause abortion. Irish women viewed emmenagogues and abortifacients as more natural than surgery and in keeping with women's traditions; these substances, they understood, …
A reproductive justice approach to understanding women's experiences with HPV and cervical cancer prevention
Holy Water and a Twig: Catholic Households and Women’s Religious Authority in Modern Ireland
This article examines Irish Catholic households from 1850 to 1950, arguing that the material culture of the household was overseen by women—grandmothers, sisters, daughters, and particularly mothers. By creating holy households demarcated by a devotional material culture, Irish Catholic women asserted their religious authority within the home and the family. These women established themselves as managers and overseers of household religion and al…
Museum Review: Dittrick Medical History Center
Museum Review:Dittrick Medical History Center Jacob Steere-Williams and Cara Delay http://artsci.case.edu/dittrick/museum/ Readers of the Bulletin will need no introduction to the Dittrick Medical History Center at Case Western University in Cleveland, a leading medical history museum and archive. Those who were at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine will no doubt recall their splendid microscope collec…
Women, Reform, and Resistance in Ireland, 1850–1950
A most diabolical deed: Infanticide and Irish society, 1850-1900Elaine Farrell
"‘A most diabolical deed’: infanticide and Irish society, 1850–1900ELAINE FARRELL." Women's History Review, 24(2), pp. 323–324
Language Which Will Move Their Hearts”: Speaking Power, Performance, and the Lay-Clerical Relationship in Modern Catholic Ireland
This article explores the lay-clerical relationship in Catholic Ireland from 1850 to the 1930s through an analysis of oratory, rhetoric, and storytelling. It examines how words, speech, and storytelling constructed and complicated the lay-clerical relationship. The Catholic priest's spoken word was a valuable tool in his parish mission; by preaching and making announcements from the pulpit, he transmitted the ideas of Ireland's postfamine Catholi…
Uncharitable Tongues: Women and Abusive Language in Early Twentieth-Century Ireland
"Uncharitable Tongues": Womenand Abusive Language in Early Twentieth-Century Ireland Cara Delay In 1914 the Catholic priest of Rosmuck, County Galway, reported on the status of his parish to Bishop Thomas O'Dea. He described a general state of peace, with one notable exception: "[wjomen," he explained, "sometimes say uncharitable things."1 One year later, another Galway priest informed his bishop that, although the parish could boast of having fe…
Confidantes or Competitors? Women, Priests, and Conflict in Post-Famine Ireland
Confidantes or Competitors?Women, Priests, and Conflict in Post-Famine Ireland Cara Delay (bio) In the mid-nineteenth century, John O'Sullivan began his career as a young curate in Dingle. In Praxis Parochi in Hibernia, his training manual for Irish priests, O'Sullivan described his first day on the job. When the young O'Sullivan arrived in Dingle, he immediately encountered a woman who needed to be churched after giving birth. O'Sullivan perform…
Listening to Women: Understanding and Challenging Systems of Power to Achieve Reproductive Justice in South Carolina
South Carolina women, especially low‐income women and women of color, face greater disparities in reproductive health outcomes, including low birth weight, preterm delivery, infant mortality, and maternal mortality, than do women nationally. The purpose of this study was to utilize a reproductive justice framework in which reproduction is considered a woman‐centered experience (as opposed to a social issue to be solved) to understand the reproduc…
Irish women and the creation of modern Catholicism, 1850–1950
Irish Women and the Creation of Modern Catholicism is the only book-length study of lay Catholic women in modern Irish history. Focusing on the pivotal century from 1850 to 1950, it analyses the roles that middle-class, working-class, and rural poor lay women played in the evolution of Irish Catholicism and thus the creation of modern Irish identities. This project demonstrates that in an age of Church growth and renewal stretching from the after…
Confidantes or Competitors? Women, Priests, and Conflict in Post-Famine Ireland
Confidantes or Competitors?Women, Priests, and Conflict in Post-Famine Ireland Cara Delay (bio) In the mid-nineteenth century, John O'Sullivan began his career as a young curate in Dingle. In Praxis Parochi in Hibernia, his training manual for Irish priests, O'Sullivan described his first day on the job. When the young O'Sullivan arrived in Dingle, he immediately encountered a woman who needed to be churched after giving birth. O'Sullivan perform…
A reproductive justice approach to understanding women's experiences with HPV and cervical cancer prevention
Language Which Will Move Their Hearts”: Speaking Power, Performance, and the Lay-Clerical Relationship in Modern Catholic Ireland
This article explores the lay-clerical relationship in Catholic Ireland from 1850 to the 1930s through an analysis of oratory, rhetoric, and storytelling. It examines how words, speech, and storytelling constructed and complicated the lay-clerical relationship. The Catholic priest's spoken word was a valuable tool in his parish mission; by preaching and making announcements from the pulpit, he transmitted the ideas of Ireland's postfamine Catholi…
Fashion and Faith: Girls and First Holy Communion in Twentieth-Century Ireland (c. 1920-1970)
With a focus on clothing, bodies, and emotions, this article examines girls' First Holy Communions in twentieth-century Ireland (c. 1920-1970), demonstrating that Irish girls, even at an early age, embraced opportunities to become both the center of attention and central faith actors in their religious communities through the ritual of Communion. A careful study of First Holy Communion, including clothing, reveals the importance of the ritual. Th…
Pills, potions, and purgatives: Women and abortion methods in Ireland, 1900-1950
This article examines women's efforts to induce miscarriage in Ireland (the Irish Free State, Éire, and the Republic) from 1900 to 1950. It demonstrates that, when possible, Irish women avoided surgical procedures, preferring instead to consume pills, potions, and purgatives to cause abortion. Irish women viewed emmenagogues and abortifacients as more natural than surgery and in keeping with women's traditions; these substances, they understood, …
Holy Water and a Twig: Catholic Households and Women’s Religious Authority in Modern Ireland
This article examines Irish Catholic households from 1850 to 1950, arguing that the material culture of the household was overseen by women—grandmothers, sisters, daughters, and particularly mothers. By creating holy households demarcated by a devotional material culture, Irish Catholic women asserted their religious authority within the home and the family. These women established themselves as managers and overseers of household religion and al…
Confidantes or Competitors? Women, Priests, and Conflict in Post-Famine Ireland
Confidantes or Competitors?Women, Priests, and Conflict in Post-Famine Ireland Cara Delay (bio) In the mid-nineteenth century, John O'Sullivan began his career as a young curate in Dingle. In Praxis Parochi in Hibernia, his training manual for Irish priests, O'Sullivan described his first day on the job. When the young O'Sullivan arrived in Dingle, he immediately encountered a woman who needed to be churched after giving birth. O'Sullivan perform…
Uncharitable Tongues: Women and Abusive Language in Early Twentieth-Century Ireland
"Uncharitable Tongues": Womenand Abusive Language in Early Twentieth-Century Ireland Cara Delay In 1914 the Catholic priest of Rosmuck, County Galway, reported on the status of his parish to Bishop Thomas O'Dea. He described a general state of peace, with one notable exception: "[wjomen," he explained, "sometimes say uncharitable things."1 One year later, another Galway priest informed his bishop that, although the parish could boast of having fe…
Language Which Will Move Their Hearts”: Speaking Power, Performance, and the Lay-Clerical Relationship in Modern Catholic Ireland
This article explores the lay-clerical relationship in Catholic Ireland from 1850 to the 1930s through an analysis of oratory, rhetoric, and storytelling. It examines how words, speech, and storytelling constructed and complicated the lay-clerical relationship. The Catholic priest's spoken word was a valuable tool in his parish mission; by preaching and making announcements from the pulpit, he transmitted the ideas of Ireland's postfamine Catholi…
Women, Reform, and Resistance in Ireland, 1850–1950
A most diabolical deed: Infanticide and Irish society, 1850-1900Elaine Farrell
"‘A most diabolical deed’: infanticide and Irish society, 1850–1900ELAINE FARRELL." Women's History Review, 24(2), pp. 323–324
Museum Review: Dittrick Medical History Center
Museum Review:Dittrick Medical History Center Jacob Steere-Williams and Cara Delay http://artsci.case.edu/dittrick/museum/ Readers of the Bulletin will need no introduction to the Dittrick Medical History Center at Case Western University in Cleveland, a leading medical history museum and archive. Those who were at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine will no doubt recall their splendid microscope collec…
Holy Water and a Twig: Catholic Households and Women’s Religious Authority in Modern Ireland
This article examines Irish Catholic households from 1850 to 1950, arguing that the material culture of the household was overseen by women—grandmothers, sisters, daughters, and particularly mothers. By creating holy households demarcated by a devotional material culture, Irish Catholic women asserted their religious authority within the home and the family. These women established themselves as managers and overseers of household religion and al…
Understanding women’s postpartum sexual experiences
This study aimed to understand women's sexual health experiences, specifically knowledge, attitudes and norms related to sexual behaviour resumption during the postpartum period. Semi-structured, reproductive health-focused interviews (N = 70) were conducted among women aged 18 years or older (range: 19-78) residing in South Carolina. Findings demonstrated that women identified clinicians as most influential concerning when they should and could …
Ilana M. Löwy. Imperfect Pregnancies: A History of Birth Defects & Prenatal Diagnosis
A timely intervention in the history of biomedical technology, this monograph examines the remarkable trajectory of prenatal diagnosis in the modern “industrialized” world. In six chapters, Ilana M. Löwy, emerita senior research fellow at the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research, explores medical and technological advances that have facilitated the meteoric rise of routine prenatal testing over the past half century. She focus…
Irish women and the creation of modern Catholicism, 1850–1950
Irish Women and the Creation of Modern Catholicism is the only book-length study of lay Catholic women in modern Irish history. Focusing on the pivotal century from 1850 to 1950, it analyses the roles that middle-class, working-class, and rural poor lay women played in the evolution of Irish Catholicism and thus the creation of modern Irish identities. This project demonstrates that in an age of Church growth and renewal stretching from the after…
Pills, potions, and purgatives: Women and abortion methods in Ireland, 1900-1950
This article examines women's efforts to induce miscarriage in Ireland (the Irish Free State, Éire, and the Republic) from 1900 to 1950. It demonstrates that, when possible, Irish women avoided surgical procedures, preferring instead to consume pills, potions, and purgatives to cause abortion. Irish women viewed emmenagogues and abortifacients as more natural than surgery and in keeping with women's traditions; these substances, they understood, …
A reproductive justice approach to understanding women's experiences with HPV and cervical cancer prevention
Listening to Women: Understanding and Challenging Systems of Power to Achieve Reproductive Justice in South Carolina
South Carolina women, especially low‐income women and women of color, face greater disparities in reproductive health outcomes, including low birth weight, preterm delivery, infant mortality, and maternal mortality, than do women nationally. The purpose of this study was to utilize a reproductive justice framework in which reproduction is considered a woman‐centered experience (as opposed to a social issue to be solved) to understand the reproduc…
Fashion and Faith: Girls and First Holy Communion in Twentieth-Century Ireland (c. 1920-1970)
With a focus on clothing, bodies, and emotions, this article examines girls' First Holy Communions in twentieth-century Ireland (c. 1920-1970), demonstrating that Irish girls, even at an early age, embraced opportunities to become both the center of attention and central faith actors in their religious communities through the ritual of Communion. A careful study of First Holy Communion, including clothing, reveals the importance of the ritual. Th…
‘Our Darkest Hour’: Women and Structural Violence under Ireland’s 8th Amendment
This article analyses women’s stories of violence in the context of the 8th Amendment. Our analysis of 773 anonymous women’s narratives from In Her Shoes reveals instances of rape and partner violence, health disparities, forced travel, barriers to care, and withholding of information by healthcare providers. Posts described the impact of structural violence on women’s medical care and lived realities. While scholars have produced essential analy…
"In All Circumstances": Home Births and Collaborative Health Care in Ireland, 1900-1950
This article examines the development of a collaborative model of home-based reproductive caregiving in Ireland from 1900 to 1950, focusing on the interactions of different practitioners in childbirth cases in the domestic sphere. In Ireland the move to obstetrics and trained nursing and midwifery was gradual, complicated by the needs and wants of ordinary women, who were reluctant to give up their trusted care givers and who actively sought to m…
Bodies and Deathscapes in Rural Catholic Ireland, 1800–1900
Scholars have long affirmed the importance of death in Irish history and culture. 1 Indeed, argues Guy Beiner, 'Modern Ireland is haunted by the memory of the dead' . 2 Recently, the roles of physical spaces and the landscape in Irish history also have garnered significant scholarly attention. 3 In studies of Ireland's post-Famine 'devotional revolution', 4 meanwhile, historians have illuminated the intricacies of Catholic Church renewal at the i…
Diane Urquhart. Irish Divorce: A History
Journal Article Diane Urquhart. Irish Divorce: A History. Get access Diane Urquhart. Irish Divorce: A History. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. vii, 285. Cloth $99.99. Cara Delay Cara Delay College of Charleston, USA Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 128, Issue 1, March 2023, Pages 465–466, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhad014 P…
"Other Things and Apparatuses": Abortion Techniques and Technologies in Pre- Roe South Carolina
This article centers the methods and materials of illegal abortion in South Carolina from criminalization (1883) to Roe v. Wade (1973) as they appeared in criminal trial records, coroners' reports, newspaper accounts, oral histories, and contemporary medical literature. The authors explore abortion techniques and technologies by analyzing the objects used in criminal abortion attempts. In particular, they focus on the common objects and substance…
Political science (13 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Irish and British Studies (10 works) · History (9 works) · Irish (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Pregnancy (6 works) · Environmental health (5 works)