Abstract

This article investigates how the criminal courts and popular press depicted abortionists across key decades of political, economic, and cultural transformations in postindependence Ireland (1922–1950). It demonstrates how and why the legal system and the media highlighted those abortion-related crimes in which bad mothers, ambitious parvenus, and ethnic “others” subverted society, religion, motherhood, and, in Ireland’s case, national values. At stake in depictions of abortionists was not only morality and criminality but also Irishness itself. Courts and newspapers presented abortion defendants as “others” in terms of gender, sexuality, class, race, and religion. Doing so branded abortionists as dangerous outsiders in, and even traitors to, a fragile Irish nation still working to define itself.

中文翻译：

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坏母亲和肮脏的哭泣者：代表独立后的爱尔兰堕胎专家

摘要

本文研究了独立后的爱尔兰（1922-1950年）在重要的数十年政治，经济和文化变革中，刑事法院和大众媒体如何描述堕胎者。它说明了法律制度和媒体如何以及为什么强调那些与堕胎有关的罪行，在这些罪行中，不良母亲，雄心勃勃的parvenus和“其他种族”颠覆了社会，宗教，母性，并在爱尔兰的情况下颠覆了国家价值观。在描述堕胎主义者时，不仅关乎道德和犯罪，而且关乎爱尔兰本身。法院和报纸在性别，性，阶级，种族和宗教方面将堕胎被告称为“其他”。如此打上烙印的堕胎主义者是一个脆弱的爱尔兰国家的危险局外人，甚至是叛国者，而爱尔兰仍在努力定义自己。