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Locked in the family cell : gender, sexuality, and political agency in Irish national discourse /

By: Conrad, Kathryn A [author.].
Series: Irish studies in literature and culture: Publisher: Madison : University of Wisconsin Press/Terrace Books, 2004Description: xiii, 179 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.Content type: text | text | still image Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 029919650X; 9780299196509:; 9780299196509.Subject(s): Families -- Political aspects -- Ireland | Family -- Political aspects -- Ireland | Sexual orientation -- Political aspects -- Ireland | Human reproduction -- Social aspects -- Ireland | Social control -- Ireland | Sex role -- IrelandDDC classification: 306.8509415
Contents:
Introduction : informing on the Irish family cell -- Foreign bodies : representations of homosexuality and the Irish body politic -- Fetal Ireland : reproduction, agency, and Irish national discourses -- Stag/nation : information, space, and the numbers game of the North.
Summary: An analysis of gender, sexuality, nationalism, the public and private spheres, and the relationship between these categories of analysis and action. Kathryn Conrad exposes the assumptions and effects of national discourses in Ireland and their reliance on a limited and limiting vision of the family: the heterosexual family cell.
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Standard Loan Standard Loan ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection 306.8509415 CON (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 0089724
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-166) and index.

Introduction : informing on the Irish family cell -- Foreign bodies : representations of homosexuality and the Irish body politic -- Fetal Ireland : reproduction, agency, and Irish national discourses -- Stag/nation : information, space, and the numbers game of the North.

An analysis of gender, sexuality, nationalism, the public and private spheres, and the relationship between these categories of analysis and action. Kathryn Conrad exposes the assumptions and effects of national discourses in Ireland and their reliance on a limited and limiting vision of the family: the heterosexual family cell.

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