This book does the important job of connecting the CervicalCheck scandal to the Irish state's wider practices of inquiry and redress. Dunne carefully unpacks the strategies of objectification, shame and discursive control the state deploys when scandals break and justice-seeking movements demand action.

Máiréad Enright, Loughborough University, UK

Dunne intersects considerations of the hierarchies of power with much-needed questions on state accountability. The result is a timely, brave and hard-hitting analysis of systematic harm and gender bias.

Diane Urquhart, Queen's University Belfast, UK

This book disrupts our understanding of past, present, and future to reveal the systematicity of the Irish State's gendered institutional bias, harm, and violence across centuries. Dunne analyzes the CervicalCheck scandal within the context of the suppression of Irish women's bodily autonomy, agency, and ultimately their humanity. By uncovering the mechanisms of reproductive oppression and elevating women's embodied knowledge and experience, this book offers hope for a truly radical transformative reckoning for Ireland.

Beth Sundstrom, College of Charleston, USA and Co-author of Catching Fire: Women's Health Activism in Ireland and the Global Movement for Reproductive Justice