Catching Fire av Beth (Associate Professor of Communication and Public Health Associate Professor of Communication and Public Health College of Charle

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For more than a generation, activists and advocacy organizations have been instrumental in agitating for women''s health reforms in Ireland. Over the last decade, Irish activists have experienced a number of victories to improve women''s health, most notably in 2018 when Ireland passed a referendum to repeal the Eighth amendment, a constitutional ban on abortion. After years of unfavorable laws for women and successive scandals in women''s health, Ireland has takentransformative steps to redefine social norms surrounding women''s health and reproduction. The case of Ireland''s women''s health reform offers important insight toward furthering the modern global movement for women''s autonomy. Catching Fire narrates the rise of women''s health activism in Ireland within a global reproductive justice framework, which aims to understand and dismantle the systems of social inequality that shape, oppress, and restrict reproductive rights and bodily autonomy. The volume focuses on attempts by