Reproducing Timely Subjects: How Abortion Law Calendars Social Reproduction

• Published in: Social & legal studies Vol. 34; no. 4; pp. 469 - 495
• Main Author: Fletcher, Ruth
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London, England SAGE Publications 01.08.2025; Sage Publications Ltd
• Subjects: Abortion; Administrative procedure; Calendars; Capitalism; Capitalist societies; Feminism; Feminist theory; Law; Life cycles; Poverty; Social reproduction; Time; feminism; Time and temporality; gestational labour; abortion law; Ireland; social reproduction

Drawing on feminist social reproduction theory and its concern for time spent reproducing the workers of tomorrow, this paper turns to Ireland's new periodic abortion law as a key source of knowledge for social reproduction. I show how law takes different qualitative approaches to measuring rep...