
Reading the Irish Woman
Studies in Cultural Encounters and Exchange, 1714-1960
Liverpool University Press
Published on 31. July 2013
Book
Hardback
272 pages
978-1-84631-892-4 (ISBN)
Description
An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.
The theme of this book is cultural encounter and exchange in Irish women's lives. Using three case studies: the Enlightenment, emigration and modernism, it analyses reading and popular and consumer culture as sites of negotiation of gender roles. It traces how the circulation of ideas, fantasies and aspirations which have shaped women's lives in actuality and in imagination and argues that there were many different ways of being a woman. Attention to women's cultural consumption and production shows that one individual may in one day identify with representations of heroines of romantic fiction, patriots, philanthropists, literary ladies, film stars, career women, popular singers, advertising models and foreign missionaries. The processes of cultural consumption, production and exchange provide evidence of women's agency, aspirations and activities within and far beyond the domestic sphere.
The theme of this book is cultural encounter and exchange in Irish women's lives. Using three case studies: the Enlightenment, emigration and modernism, it analyses reading and popular and consumer culture as sites of negotiation of gender roles. It traces how the circulation of ideas, fantasies and aspirations which have shaped women's lives in actuality and in imagination and argues that there were many different ways of being a woman. Attention to women's cultural consumption and production shows that one individual may in one day identify with representations of heroines of romantic fiction, patriots, philanthropists, literary ladies, film stars, career women, popular singers, advertising models and foreign missionaries. The processes of cultural consumption, production and exchange provide evidence of women's agency, aspirations and activities within and far beyond the domestic sphere.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Liverpool
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 239 mm
Width: 163 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-84631-892-4 (9781846318924)
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Persons
Gerardine Meaney is Director of the Humanities Institute of Ireland at University College Dublin. Mary O'Dowd is Professor in the School of History and Anthropology at Queen's University, Belfast. Bernadette Whelan is Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Limerick.
Author
School of History and Anthropology, Queen's University Belfast (United Kingdom)
Content
Abbreviations
Introduction
Enlightenment
1. The Enlightenment, Reading and Irish Women, 1714-1820
2. Educating Women, Patriotism and Public Life, 1770-1845
Emigration
3. The Woman Emigrant Encounters the 'New World', c. 1851-1960
4. Women and the 'American Way', 1900-60
Modernism
5. Women as Producers and Consumers of Popular Culture, 1900-60
6. Women and the Gate Theatre, 1929-60: Sexual and Aesthetic Dissidences
Bibliography
Index
Introduction
Enlightenment
1. The Enlightenment, Reading and Irish Women, 1714-1820
2. Educating Women, Patriotism and Public Life, 1770-1845
Emigration
3. The Woman Emigrant Encounters the 'New World', c. 1851-1960
4. Women and the 'American Way', 1900-60
Modernism
5. Women as Producers and Consumers of Popular Culture, 1900-60
6. Women and the Gate Theatre, 1929-60: Sexual and Aesthetic Dissidences
Bibliography
Index