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This paper was originally presented to the Women Studies Interdisciplinary Working Group of the Culture Centre of the European University Institute, Florence. My thanks go to the participants for their encouragement, and in particular to Mary Daly, Maria Drakopoulou, Lindsay Farmer, Barbara MacLennan, Eithne Murphy, Katherine O'Donovan, Carmen Sarasua Garcia and Julia Sohrab for their support and constructive criticism. I would also like to thank Peter Fitzpatrick and Gunther Teubner who co-supervise the doctoral thesis from which this research comes.
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Sheldon, S. “Who is the mother to make the judgment?”: The constructions of woman in English Abortion law. Feminist Legal Stud 1, 3–22 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01191522
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01191522