Who decides what happens after sex? The last decade has seen a rise in activism and arguments over women’s reproductive freedom reminiscent of the 1960s and 1970s. Political progress in Ireland has been countered by regressive action in the US. After Sex provides personal and political perspectives from the mid-twentieth century to the present day, setting feminist classics alongside contemporary accounts and highlighting the experiences of women of colour and working-class...

Who decides what happens after sex? The last decade has seen a rise in activism and arguments over women’s reproductive freedom reminiscent of the 1960s and 1970s. Political progress in Ireland has been countered by regressive action in the US. Join Edna Bonhomme and Alice Spawls, co-editors of the reproductive justice anthology After Sex, to launch the book in conversation with writer Nell Dunn.

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Featured speakers: Kirsty Logan, Alice Spawls, Sian Norris.

To be able to experience true reproductive rights, we must have the freedom to say yes as well as no to parenthood. Yet patriarchy, racism and heteronormativity seek to force some into the role, and others out of it, through restricted abortion rights, denied fertility health care and myriad kinds of oppression...

 

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