Browsing Department of Law by Author "FLETCHER, R"
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Civic Feminism and Voluntary Abortion Care: A Story of ESCORT's Contribution to Reproductive Justice
FLETCHER, R (Cork University Press, 2015-10) -
Conscientious Objection and Harm Reduction in Europe
FLETCHER, R (Women's Link Worldwide and O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health, 2014-10)Conscientious objection to the provision of health care raises important philosophical and practical questions. Is it justifiable for a health care professional to act against a legal obligation on the grounds that such ... -
Conscientious objection, harm reduction and abortion care
FLETCHER, R (Manchester University Press, 2016-02-28)The scope of any legal right to refuse abortion care merits particular consideration given the recent passing of the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act 2013 (PLDPA). Irish health scholarship and practice may benefit ... -
Contesting the cruel treatment of pregnant women
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Legal Form, Commodities and Reproduction: Reading Pashukanis
FLETCHER, R (Routledge Cavendish, 2013-12)This chapter offers a feminist reading of Pashukanis’s legal theory as a contribution to critical evaluation of the relationship between legality, commodification and gender. Contemporary feminist interests in the relationship ... -
Negotiating Strangeness on the Abortion Trail
FLETCHER, R (Routledge, 2016-11-10)Negotiating strangeness refers to a set of feminist care practices that feel out ‘the trail’ as a timespace occupied by those travelling in search of abortion. Responding to Lentin (2004), and drawing on Ahmed (2000) and ... -
Peripheral governance: administering transnational health-care flows
FLETCHER, R (Cambridge University Press, 2013)This paper develops the concept of peripheral governance as a kind of legal transnationalism that is being generated by responses to outward travel for health care. I argue for a recuperation of the ‘peripheral’ in order ... -
Reproducing Irishness: Race, Gender, and Abortion Law
FLETCHER, R (University of Toronto Press, 2005-12-01)This article draws on Nira Yuval-Davis's theory of gender and nation and on Etienne Balibar's theory of race and nationalism to develop the argument that race is one significant means by which the legal regime of the ...