Irish Women's History Reader
Published on 14. December 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
254 pages
978-0-415-19914-8 (ISBN)
Description
The Irish Women's History Reader is an exciting collection of essays revealing the tremendous diversity of women's experiences in Ireland's past. For the first time this unique book draws together key articles published in the fields of Irish women's history and women's studies over the past two decades, including contributions from Ireland, North and South, England, USA, Canada and Australia.
The Irish Women's History Reader explores the lives of ordinary Irish women since 1800, looking at the key themes of:
* historiography and the development of, and writing of, women's history in Ireland
* politics and the variety of political activities undertaken by women including suffrage, nationalism and unionism
* health and sexuality revealing hidden histories of sexual activity, mental illness and attempts to control fertility
* religion and the experiences of catholic nuns, protestant evangelicals and salvationists
* emigration and the pattern of female migration to USA, Britain and Australia
* work including both paid and unpaid employ inside and outside the home.
The Irish Women's History Reader explores the lives of ordinary Irish women since 1800, looking at the key themes of:
* historiography and the development of, and writing of, women's history in Ireland
* politics and the variety of political activities undertaken by women including suffrage, nationalism and unionism
* health and sexuality revealing hidden histories of sexual activity, mental illness and attempts to control fertility
* religion and the experiences of catholic nuns, protestant evangelicals and salvationists
* emigration and the pattern of female migration to USA, Britain and Australia
* work including both paid and unpaid employ inside and outside the home.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Undergraduate
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 174 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
463 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-19914-8 (9780415199148)
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Alan Hayes | Diane Urquhart
Irish Women's History Reader
Book
12/2000
Routledge
€205.00
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Persons
Alan Hayes is Researcher at the National University of Ireland, Galway and Publisher of Arlen House and Diane Urquhart is Lecturer in Modern Irish History at the Institute of Irish Studies of the University of Liverpool.
Content
Introduction PART ONE Historiography 1 FROM MORGAN TO MACCURTAIN: WOMEN HISTORIANS IN IRELAND FROM THE 1790s TO THE 1990s HISTORY WOMEN AND HISTORY MEN: THE POLITICS OF WOMEN'S HISTORY 3 WOMEN 'S HISTORY, FEMINIST HISTORY ORGENDER HISTORY? PART TWO Politics 4 WOMEN AND POLITICS IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY IRELAND 5 VOTES FOR WOMEN 6 WOMEN AND HIGHER EDUCATION IN IRELAND (1879-1914) 7 'THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES IS MORE DEADLIER THAN THE MALE'?: THE ULSTER WOMEN'S UNIONIST COUNCIL, 1911-40 8 MARGINALIT Y AND MILITANCY: CUMANNNAMBAN, 1914-36 9 ASPECTS OF WOMEN 'S CONTRIBUTION TO THE OIREACHTAS DEBATE IN THE IRISH FREE STATE, 1922-37 10 THE CONSTITUTION AND THE ROLE OF WOMEN PART THREE Health and Sexuality 11 WOMEN AND SEXUALITY IN NINETEENTH -CENTURY IRELAND 12 ' A BANDONED WOMEN AND BAD CHARACTERS ' : PROSTITUTION IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY IRELAND 13 THE G R EAT FAMINE 14 HEARTHS, BODIES AND MINDS : GENDER IDEOLOGY AND WOMEN'S COMMITTAL TO ENNISCORTHY LUNATIC ASYLUM, 1916-25 15 MARIE STOPES IN IRE LAND: THE MOTHER'S CLINIC IN BELFAST, 1936-47 PART FOUR Religion 16 ' BORN TO SERVE ': Women EVANGELICAL RELIGION 17 WALLS WITHIN WALLS : NUNS IN NINETEENTH -CENTURY IRELAND 18 WOMEN AND THE CHURCH SINCE THE FAMINE 19 ' EQUAL SINNERS': IRISHWOMEN UTILISING THE SALVATION ARMY RESCUE NETWORK FOR BRITAIN AND IRELAND IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 20 GODLY BURDEN: CATHOLIC SISTER HOODS IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY IRELAND 21 NEITHER FEMINIST NOR FLAPPER: THE ECCLESIASTICAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE IDEAL IRISH WOMAN PART FIVE Emigration 22 WOMEN AND THE IRISH DIASPORA: THE GREAT UNKNOWN 23 BAREFOOT AND PREGNANT? I RISH FAMINE ORPHANS IN AUSTRALIA 24 THE SEARCH FOR BREAD: PATTERNS OF FEMALE MIGRATION 25 IRISH WOMEN'S EMIGRATION TO ENGLAND, 1922-60: THE LENGTHENING OF FAMILY TIES PART SIX Work 26 IN THE IRISH WORKFORCE FROM PRE-INDUSTRIAL TO MODERN TIMES 27 CONCLUSION in WOMEN AND PHILANTHROPY IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY IRELAND 28 'THE BEST OF ALL HOME RULERS': THE ECONOMIC POWER OF WOMEN IN IRELAND, 1880-1914 29 WOMEN IN RURAL IRELAND IN THE NIN ET EE NTH AND EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURIES: HOW THE DAUGHTERS, WIVES AND SISTERS OF SMALL FARMERS AND LANDLESS LABOURERS FARED 30 LIFE FOR DOMESTIC SERVANTS IN DUBLIN, 1880-1920 31 WOMEN AND IRISH TRADE UNIONS. CONCLUSION.