Christophe Delay

Biographic Data

ID879878
NAMEChristophe Delay
GIVEN NAMESChristophe
FAMILY NAMEDelay
SIGNATUREDELAY C
AFFILIATIONSCollege of Charleston
ORCID0000-0002-7551-1062
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS37
TOTAL CITATIONS41
AUTHOR COUNT37
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2005
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX4

  • Shares of suffering: Transnational mothering in Irish Famine-era letters

    Christophe Delay, E Moore QuinnARTICLEWomen s History Review2026

    This article examines transnational mothering during the Great Famine (1845–1852) and the emigrations of the era. It analyses epistolary sources to ask how women in mid-nineteenth-century Ireland used their roles as mothers to claim agency and demonstrate authority. It complicates contemporary descriptions of the suffering mother and the sacrificing mother, asking how and why mothers attempted to continue parenting their absent children by displa…

  • Introduction: Reproduction and motherhood in modern Ireland

    Christophe DelayARTICLEWomen s History Review2026

    This introduction provides an overview of the field of modern Irish women's history today and reviews the main themes, approaches, and sources that the Special Issue's contributors utilise

  • Exploring Barriers To Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare for Latina Women in South Carolina

    Open AccessIoannis Theodossiou, Kristen E Mclean et al.ARTICLEJournal of Immigrant and Minority…2025

    Migrant and minority women in the United States face a high likelihood of experiencing poor reproductive health outcomes. Hispanic/Latina women are an especially high-risk population. Comprehensive and high-quality sexual and reproductive healthcare (SRHC) is desperately needed among this population, yet many Latina women face substantial barriers in accessing care. This study builds upon the three-delays model to better understand why Latina wom…

  • "Other Things and Apparatuses": Abortion Techniques and Technologies in Pre- Roe South Carolina

    Christophe Delay, Cara Delay et al.ARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2025

    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…

  • Carried to the Swamp”: Race, Place, and Geographies of Infant Death in the Post-Emancipation American South

    Open AccessChristophe Delay, Madeleine WareARTICLEJournal of Social History2025

    This article examines infant abandonment, death, and burial in the late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century American South, predominantly in South Carolina. It investigates the physical and imaginary geographies associated with infant death, exploring how southerners navigated local landscapes to conceal infant deaths. It links physical spaces to geographies of power and control in a postbellum southern world still defined by racism and viole…

  • "In All Circumstances": Home Births and Collaborative Health Care in Ireland, 1900-1950

    Christophe Delay, Cara DelayARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2023

    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

    Open AccessChristophe Delay, Cara DelayARTICLEJournal of Victorian Culture2023References: 1

    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

    Open AccessChristophe Delay, Cara DelayARTICLEThe American Historical Review2023

    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

    Open AccessChristophe Delay, Cara Delay et al.ARTICLEFeminist Encounters A Journal of…2022

    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)

    Open AccessChristophe Delay, Cara DelayARTICLEReligions2021Cited by: 1References: 16

    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…

  • Youngsters’ choices within the field of vocational education in French-speaking Switzerland: The interplay of institutional influences, peer-group and habitus

    Open AccessChristophe DelayARTICLEJournal of Youth Studies2020References: 15

    This article aims at deepening our understanding, through an ethnographical approach, of the processes at play in orientation choices within the field of vocational education; 21 working-class students nearing the end of compulsory schooling in Frenchspeaking Switzerland were interviewed and their interactions with education professionals during guidance classes observed. Using data-source triangulation, the article shows that choices are often s…

  • Abortion and Black Women's Health Networks in South Carolina, 1940–70

    Open AccessMadeleine Ware, Christophe Delay et al.ARTICLEGender & History2020

    This article investigates criminal abortions in South Carolina from 1940 to 1970. This research reveals an increased regulation of Black women's bodies and heightened reporting on Black women's criminal offenses, especially abortion, from the 1940s through the 1960s. It also, however, demonstrates the intergenerational persistence of Black women's communally driven health practices, including abortion. It reveals Black women's understandings of t…

  • L’apprentissage pour « horizon » ou comment les élèves des classes populaires intériorisent le sens de leur orientation contrariée

    Christophe DelayARTICLEFormation emploi2020References: 12

    Cet article étudie les choix d’orientation des élèves des classes populaires aspirant à entrer en apprentissage salarié en fin de scolarité obligatoire. Mobilisant une approche ethnographique, il montre comment s’intériorise dans la durée, au contact des enseignants en classe, puis lors d’un processus de socialisation professionnelle partielle et incomplète en stage, un sens de sa place. La confrontation des choix désirés à ceux finalement réalis…

  • Listening to Women: Understanding and Challenging Systems of Power to Achieve Reproductive Justice in South Carolina

    Open AccessEllie Smith, Beth Sundstrom et al.ARTICLEJournal of Social Issues2020Cited by: 5References: 41

    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…

  • Se priver ou se relâcher face aux contraintes matérielles: Les dispositions économiques plurielles des jeunes « peu qualifié·e·s »

    Open AccessLaure Scalambrin, Christophe Delay et al.ARTICLESwiss Journal of Sociocultural…2019

  • Understanding women’s postpartum sexual experiences

    Andrea L Demaria, Christophe Delay et al.ARTICLECulture Health & Sexuality2019

    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 …

  • Wrong for womankind and the nation: Anti-abortion discourses in 20th-century Ireland

    Open AccessChristophe DelayARTICLEJournal of Modern European History2019Cited by: 1

    This article asks how anti-abortion discourses and dialogues engaged with ideas about motherhood, national identity, and women’s reproductive decision-making in 20th-century Ireland, particularly from 1967, when abortion was decriminalized in Britain, to 1983, when Ireland’s Eighth Amendment became the law of the land. It assesses the ways in which ‘pro-life’ advocates rejected the notion that women were independent adults capable of reproductive…

  • Ilana M. Löwy. Imperfect Pregnancies: A History of Birth Defects & Prenatal Diagnosis

    Open AccessChristophe Delay, Cara DelayARTICLEJournal of the History of…2019

    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

    Christophe Delay, Cara DelayBOOKIrish Women and the Creation of…2019Cited by: 5

    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

    Christophe Delay, Cara DelayARTICLEWomen s History Review2019Cited by: 1

    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

    Open AccessBeth Sundstrom, Ellie Smith et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2019Cited by: 2References: 39

  • Holy Water and a Twig: Catholic Households and Women’s Religious Authority in Modern Ireland

    Open AccessChristophe Delay, Cara DelayARTICLEJournal of Family History2018Cited by: 1

    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…

  • En sortir » ou « s'en sortir par l'école: Choix d'orientations juvéniles, classes populaires et enseignement professionnel en Suisse romande

    Christophe DelayARTICLESociétés contemporaines2018Cited by: 5References: 18

    Cet article revisite la question des choix d'orientation post-obligatoires juvéniles dans l'espace des filières de l'enseignement professionnel. S'appuyant sur une enquête ethnographique réalisée dans un établissement scolaire romand, il montre qu'à cet espace différencié correspond un espace des habitus populaires au principe des choix. Ceux-ci sont structurés par une variété de principes qui distinguent les classes populaires elles-mêmes. L'ori…

  • Museum Review: Dittrick Medical History Center

    Jacob Steere‐william, Christophe Delay et al.ARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2016

    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…

  • A most diabolical deed: Infanticide and Irish society, 1850-1900Elaine Farrell

    Christophe Delay, Cara DelayARTICLEWomen s History Review2015

    "‘A most diabolical deed’: infanticide and Irish society, 1850–1900ELAINE FARRELL." Women's History Review, 24(2), pp. 323–324