Leah Eades

Leah Eades is a PhD Candidate at the School of Social and Political Science. Her PhD project is entitled "After the Eighth: Abortion and the Politics of Reproduction in Post-Repeal Ireland". She teaches on Social Anthropology 1A and 1B, Anthropology of Sex and Reproduction, and Anthropology of Health and Healing. She was the organiser of the Edinburgh Abortion Rights Film Festival (supported by an SPSS Research Student-led Special Projects Grant) in March 2020. Her research interests include:

• Medical anthropology
• Politics of reproduction
• Gender
• Social movements
• Medico-legal nexuses.

Her recent publications include:

• Eades, L. (2020). 'What do Abortion Pills Mean During a Pandemic?'. Covid-19 Perspectives Blog, 8th May. blogs.ed.ac.uk/covid19perspectives/2020/05/08/what-do-abortion-pills-mean-in-a-pandemic-asks-leah-eades/.
• Eades, L. (2019). ‘Social realities, biological realities: the 24-week fetus in contemporary English abortion activism’. Women's Studies International Forum, 74: 20-26. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2019.02.005.
• Eades, L. (2017). ‘Dialogical (de)medicalisation in British abortion activism’. UCL Medical Anthropology Blog. 21st November. medanthucl.com/2017/11/21/dialogical-demedicalisation-in-british-abortion-activism/.