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

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

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Ryan, Louise, Ward, Margaret, 1950-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Dublin ; Portland, OR : Irish Academic Press, 2004.
Subjects:
Women > Political activity > Ireland.
Women > Political activity > Ireland > History.
Women political activists > Ireland > History.
Nationalism > Ireland.
Ireland > Politics and government.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / SinĂ©ad McCoole
  • 1. Introduction / Louise Ryan and Margaret Wood
  • 2. Testimonies to history: reassessing women's involvement in the 1641 rising / Andrea Knox
  • 3. Revolution in Ireland, evolution in women's rights: Irish women in 1798 and 1848 / Jan Cannavan
  • 4. 'In the line of fire': representations of women and war (1919-1923) through the writings of republican men / Louise Ryan
  • 5. Constance Markievicz and the politics of memory / Karen Steele
  • 6. Representations and attitudes of republican women in the novels of Annie M.P. Smithson (1873-1948) and Rosamond Jacob (1888-1960) / Danae O'Regan
  • 7. 'And behind him a wicked hag did stalk': from maiden to mother, Ireland as woman through the male psyche / Jayne Steel
  • 8. 'We had to be stronger': the political imprisonment of women in Northern Ireland, 1972-1999 / Mary Corcoran
  • 9. Female combatants, paramilitary prisoners and the development of feminism in the republican movement / Rhiannon Talbot
  • 10. Narrataives of political activism from women in West Belfast / Claire Hackett
  • 11. The emergence of a gender consciousness: women and community work in West Belfast / Callie Persic
  • 12. Times of transition: republican women, feminism and political representation / Margaret Ward
  • Notes
  • Notes on contributors
  • Index.