How Irish Women's Experiences Of Travelling For Abortions Challenge Our Understanding of Citizenship, Gender and Failure

爱尔兰妇女前往堕胎的经历如何挑战我们对公民身份、性别和失败的理解

• 批准号: 1949995
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: The Open University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2017 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-1949995
• 关键词: How; Irish; Women; Experiences; Travelling

My proposed PhD topic combines qualitative research, critical discourse analysis, and feminist theory to explore the link between Irish women who travel abroad for abortions and national ideals of citizenship and gender.Ireland's ideals of citizenship have transformed over the past three decades, particularly in relation to gender and heteronormativity, and continue to do so. By embracing theories regarding liminality in anthropology, I will be able to examine Ireland as a nation state whose concept of gender and citizenship is in flux. Recent changes to the Irish constitution have reduced the impact of patriarchal, heteronormative and religious ideals regarding gender, sexuality and heteronormativity, including public referenda allowing contraception, divorce, and same-sex marriage - the latter having taken place in 2015. These societal and cultural changes have challenged traditional gender roles and what it means to be an Irish woman. These transformations have also impacted the rhetoric around abortion in Ireland, as social change seems imminent. There is a renewed vigor among pro-choice movements in Ireland, but there is also a notable backlash to this movement, resulting in the dissemination of anti-choice rhetoric, much of which directly attacks the character of women who travel for abortions.Due to Ireland's unique position as a State and culture undergoing a distinct transformation regarding gender and sexuality, the country provides a fascinating case study to explore how gendered citizenship is felt, enacted, and how it evolves. Critical discourse analysis will enable me to explore how recent changes have affected Ireland's rhetoric regarding patriotism and what it means to be a "good" citizen of Ireland, and what it means to be a woman currently navigating that shifting social landscape. By employing meso critical discourse analysis to examine how public discourse regarding gender, sexuality and abortion is created and perpetuated by pro- and anti-choice campaigners and the mainstream media, I will be able to examine how Irish institutions and campaigners produce and perpetuate particular ideals of womanhood. Macro critical discourse analysis will then allow me to explore how these shifting ideals of gender and sexuality affect how Irish women experience Ireland's evolving ideals of citizenship, their identity as female Irish citizens, and their attitudes towards existing laws regarding abortion. This form of macro analysis will be used to focus and analyze my qualitative interviews with Irish women who have travelled abroad for abortions.I already have experience conducting qualitative research related to this topic, and am excited to use my PhD to expand upon my work and contribute substantial qualitative data and generative frameworks of analysis. During my M.A. in Sexuality Studies, I used my platform as a feminist journalist and public intellectual to recruit Irish women who had travelled abroad for abortions to be interviewed. My recruitment was so successful that I was ultimately unable to interview all the women who volunteered to be part of my research, but the positive response was very encouraging for future work. Using a semi-structured interview guide and thematic coding, my thesis eventually focused on my participants' experiences of guilt, motherhood, ambiguity, and space and exile.During my interviews, many women spoke of feeling rejected both by Ireland and by individual people in their lives because of their decision to have an abortion, feeling literally exiled from their home country in order to have an abortion, and then being shamed or ostracized by people because of their decision. Many women expressed this by using the language of failure in relation to both their citizenship and womanhood.

我提出的博士课题结合了定性研究，批判性话语分析和女权主义理论，探讨爱尔兰妇女出国堕胎和公民身份和性别的国家理想之间的联系。爱尔兰的公民身份的理想在过去的三十年中已经转变，特别是在性别和heteronormativity，并继续这样做。通过接受人类学中关于阈限性的理论，我将能够将爱尔兰作为一个民族国家来考察，这个国家的性别和公民身份的概念是不断变化的。爱尔兰宪法最近的修改减少了父权制、异性恋和宗教理想对性别、性和异性恋的影响，包括允许避孕、离婚和同性婚姻的公民投票--后者于2015年举行。这些社会和文化变化挑战了传统的性别角色以及作为一名爱尔兰妇女意味着什么。这些转变也影响了爱尔兰围绕堕胎的言论，因为社会变革似乎迫在眉睫。在爱尔兰，支持堕胎的运动重新焕发活力，但这一运动也受到明显的抵制，导致反堕胎言论的传播，其中许多言论直接攻击前往堕胎的妇女的性格，由于爱尔兰作为一个国家的独特地位和文化在性别和性方面正在经历明显的转变，该国提供了一个迷人的案例研究，以探讨性别公民身份是如何感受、颁布和演变的。批判性话语分析将使我能够探讨最近的变化如何影响爱尔兰的言论爱国主义和它意味着什么是一个“好”公民的爱尔兰，以及它意味着什么是一个女人目前导航，不断变化的社会景观。通过采用中观批评话语分析，研究如何创建和延续的支持和反对选择的活动家和主流媒体的性别，性和堕胎的公共话语，我将能够研究爱尔兰机构和活动家如何生产和延续特定的理想女性。宏观批评话语分析，然后让我探讨如何改变性别和性的理想如何影响爱尔兰妇女的经验爱尔兰的不断发展的公民身份的理想，他们的身份作为女性爱尔兰公民，以及他们对现行法律的态度关于堕胎。这种形式的宏观分析将被用来集中和分析我的定性采访爱尔兰妇女谁曾出国堕胎.我已经有经验进行定性研究与此相关的主题，并很高兴能用我的博士学位来扩大我的工作，并贡献大量的定性数据和生成分析框架.在我读硕士的时候。在《性研究》中，我利用自己作为女权主义记者和公共知识分子的平台，招募了一些曾出国堕胎的爱尔兰妇女接受采访。我的招聘非常成功，以至于我最终无法采访所有自愿参与我研究的女性，但积极的反应对未来的工作非常鼓舞人心。通过半结构化的访谈指南和主题编码，我的论文最终聚焦于参与者的内疚、母性、模糊、空间和流亡经历。在我的访谈中，许多女性谈到，因为决定堕胎，她们感到被爱尔兰和生活中的个别人拒绝，为了堕胎，她们感到被驱逐出自己的祖国，然后因为他们的决定而被人们羞辱或排斥。许多妇女通过使用与其公民身份和妇女身份有关的失败语言来表达这一点。