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Irish women and nationalism : soldiers, new women, and wicked hags /

Contributor(s): Ryan, Louise, 1965- | Ward, Margaret, 1950-.
Series: Gender studies: Publisher: Dublin ; Irish Academic Press, 2004Description: viii, 239 pages ; 24 cm.Content type: text | text Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 0716527669; 9780716527664:; 9780716527664; 0716527677; 9780716527671.Subject(s): Women -- Political activity -- Ireland | Women -- Ireland -- Political activity -- History | Women -- Political activity -- Ireland -- History | Women in politics -- Ireland -- History | Women political activists -- Ireland -- History | Nationalism -- Ireland | Ireland -- Politics and governmentDDC classification: 305.4209415 | RYA
Contents:
Foreword / Sinéad McCoole -- Introduction / Louise Ryan and Margaret Wood -- Testimonies to history : reassessing women's involvement in the 1641 rising / Andrea Knox -- Revolution in Ireland, evolution in women's rights : Irish women in 1798 and 1848 / Jan Cannavan -- 'In the line of fire': representations of women and war (1919-1923) through the writings of republican men / Louise Ryan -- Constance Markievicz and the politics of memory / Karen Steele -- Representations and attitudes of republican women in the novels of Annie M.P. Smithson (1873-1948) and Rosamond Jacob (1888-1960) / Danae O'Regan -- 'And behind him a wicked hag did stalk': from maiden to mother, Ireland as woman through the male psyche / Jayne Steel -- 'We had to be stronger': the political imprisonment of women in Northern Ireland, 1972-1999 / Mary Corcoran -- Female combatants, paramilitary prisoners and the development of feminism in the republican movement / Rhiannon Talbot Narrataives of political activism from women in West Belfast / Claire Hackett -- The emergence of a gender consciousness : women and community work in West Belfast / Callie Persic -- Times of transition : republican women, feminism and political representation / Margaret Ward -- Notes -- Notes on contributors -- Index.
Summary: In this text, the full range of women's contribution to the Irish nationalist movement is explored by writers whose interests range from the historical and sociological to the literary and cultural.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-227) and index.

Foreword / Sinéad McCoole -- Introduction / Louise Ryan and Margaret Wood -- Testimonies to history : reassessing women's involvement in the 1641 rising / Andrea Knox -- Revolution in Ireland, evolution in women's rights : Irish women in 1798 and 1848 / Jan Cannavan -- 'In the line of fire': representations of women and war (1919-1923) through the writings of republican men / Louise Ryan -- Constance Markievicz and the politics of memory / Karen Steele -- Representations and attitudes of republican women in the novels of Annie M.P. Smithson (1873-1948) and Rosamond Jacob (1888-1960) / Danae O'Regan -- 'And behind him a wicked hag did stalk': from maiden to mother, Ireland as woman through the male psyche / Jayne Steel -- 'We had to be stronger': the political imprisonment of women in Northern Ireland, 1972-1999 / Mary Corcoran -- Female combatants, paramilitary prisoners and the development of feminism in the republican movement / Rhiannon Talbot Narrataives of political activism from women in West Belfast / Claire Hackett -- The emergence of a gender consciousness : women and community work in West Belfast / Callie Persic -- Times of transition : republican women, feminism and political representation / Margaret Ward -- Notes -- Notes on contributors -- Index.

In this text, the full range of women's contribution to the Irish nationalist movement is explored by writers whose interests range from the historical and sociological to the literary and cultural.

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