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Record Nr.

UNINA9910774746103321

Titolo

Gender and History : Ireland, 1852-1922 / / edited by Jyoti Atwal, Ciara Breathnach, and Sarah-Anne Buckley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2022

ISBN

1-00-316494-3

1-003-16494-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (312 pages)

Disciplina

305.3

Soggetti

Sex role

Ireland Social conditions 19th century

Ireland Social conditions 20th century

Ireland History 19th century

Ireland History 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Preface: Women in Ireland / by Jane Ohlmeyer -- Gender and the Irish family, 1852-1922 / Rachel Murphy -- Gender and migration : the Irish experience, 1850-1922 / Patrick Fitzgerald -- Gender and the big house, 1852-1922 / Maeve O'Riordan -- Doing good? Irish women, Catholicism and charity, 1852-1922 / Sarah Roddy -- Gender and the Irish language in post-famine Ireland / Nicholas M. Wolf -- Gender, medicine and the state in Ireland, 1852-1922 / Ciara Breathnach -- 'A fat, pompous old woman, ignorant, and illiterate' : popular midwifery in nineteenth-century Ireland / Laurence M. Geary -- Gender, folklore and magical healing in Ireland, 1852-1922 / Andrew Sneddon -- Gender and insanity in Ireland, 1800-1923 / Oonagh Walsh -- Gender, childhood and institutionalisation in Ireland, 1730-1922 / Sarah-Anne Buckley -- Women, sexuality and reproduction, 1850-1922 / Leanne McCormick -- Crime, punishment and gender / Elaine Farrell -- The emergence of Irish masculinity studies / Aidan Beatty -- Homosexuality and lesbianism in Irish newspapers, 1861-1922 / Catherine Lawless and Ciara Breathnach -- Women's educational activism and higher education in Ireland, 1850-1912 / John Walsh -- 'The peeress and the



peasant' : popular mobilisation and the Ulster Women's Unionist Council, 1911-21 / Diane Urquhart -- 'A voice in the affairs of the nation' : Irish women and nationalism 1872-1922 / Margaret Ward -- 'A political nonentity with infants, criminals, and lunatics' : first wave feminism in Ireland 1872-1922 / Sonja Tiernan -- Margaret Elizabeth Cousins (1878-1954) and transnationalism : an Irish suffragist as an anti-colonial feminist in colonial India / Jyoti Atwal -- Female revolutionaries and political violence in India and Ireland, 1919-1939 / Eunan O'Halpin.

Sommario/riassunto

"This book provides an overview of Irish gender history beginning from the end of the Great Famine in 1852 till the foundation of the Irish Free State in 1922. It builds on the work that scholars of women's history pioneered and brings together internationally regarded experts to offer a synthesis of the current historiography and existing debates within the field. The authors place emphasis on highlighting new and exciting sources, methodologies, and suggested areas for future research. They address a variety of critical themes such as the family, reproduction and sexuality, the medical and prison systems, masculinities and femininities, institutions, charity, the missions, migration, 'elite women', and the involvement of women in the Irish nationalist/revolutionary period. Envisioned to be both thematic and chronological, the book provides insight into the comparative, transnational, and connected histories of Ireland, India, and the British Empire. An important contribution to the study of Irish gender history, the volume offers opportunities to students and researchers to learn from the methods and historiography of Irish studies. It will be useful for scholars and teachers of history, gender studies, colonialism, post-colonialism, European history, Irish history, Irish studies, and political history"--