“…For example, Kennedy (2000Kennedy ( , 2001, McAvoy (1999), Finnane (2001) and Smith (2004) have explored the 1931 Report of the Committee on the Criminal Law Amendment Acts (1880 -1885) 3 and Howell (2003) has examined the 1927 Report of the Committee on Venereal Disease. Gray and Ryan (1998), Gray (1999), Ryan (1999Ryan ( , 2002, Valiulis (1995a) and Daly (1995) have explored the connections between control of women's sexuality, gender, identity and nation building, and Luddy (2001) and Earner-Bryne (2004) have examined issues concerning illegitimacy, unmarried mothers and emigration. These studies, however, tend to focus on one particular report, piece of legislation or form of sexual practice (such as prostitution or illegitimate births), rather than construct a genealogy of how these various reports and Acts worked together to produce a particular moral terrain.…”