Gender, Ireland and Cultural Change

In this study, Meaney analyzes the role of gender in Irish cultural change from the 1890s to the present. Including discussions of writers such as James Joyce, W.B. Yeats, Oscar Wilde, and Eavan Boland, the first part looks at the relationships between gender and national identities and the recognized major political and cultural movements of the twentieth century. The second critiques contemporary film, television, and popular music in order to understand new modes of writing, reading and viewing Irishness.

Informationen zum Autor Gerardine Meaney is Professor of Cultural Theory at UCD Dublin and the author of (Un)Like Subjects: Women, Theory, Fiction . Klappentext This study analyzes the role of gender in Irish cultural change from the 1890s to the present, exploring literature, the relationships between gender and national identities, and the recognized major political and cultural movements of the twentieth century. It includes discussion of film, television and, popular music, as well as diverse literary texts by authors such as Joyce, Yeats, Wilde, and Boland. Zusammenfassung This book analyzes the roots of Irish social and sexual conservatism and the dramatic change in one of the most basic areas of human experience: how we understand our roles as men and women. It looks at the relationship between sexual and cultural dissent and the long, slow role of culture in generating change. Meaney offers the first major study that sets the relationship between national and gender identities in the context of analysis of Irish identity as white identity, tracing the identification of female sexuality with foreign threat in nationalist discourse and its consequences in contemporary representations of immigrant women and their children. The study presents an extended analysis of the relationship between feminism and nationalism, and between gender and modernism. Analyzing the role of Joyce in contemporary culture and Yeats and Synge in the understanding of tradition, it also sets their work in the context of their less known female contemporaries and challenges conventional understandings of the Irish literary tradition. The book concludes with an analysis of the relationship between race and masculinity in Irish characters in US and British culture, from Patriot Games to Rescue Me and The Wire, The Romans in Britain to M.I.5 Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Part I: Race, Women and Nation Chapter One: Virgin Mother Ireland Chapter Two: Landscapes of Desire: Women and Ireland in Twentieth Century Film Chapter Three: Feminisms, Nationalisms and Identities: Gender and Dissent Part II: Writing, Bodies, Canons Chapter Four: Modernism and the Gender of Writing Chapter Five: Haunting James Joyce: Invisible Bodies Chapter Six: The Sons of Cuchulainn: Violence, the Family, and the Irish Canon Part III: Race, Masculinity and Popular Culture Chapter Seven: The Devil's Own Patriot Games: The Troubles and the Hollywood Action Movie Chapter Eight: Masculinity and Ethnicity: The Wire and Rescue Me Chapter Nine: The Undercover Irishman: Extimating National Anxiety Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index...

Autorentext

Gerardine Meaney is Professor of Cultural Theory at UCD Dublin and the author of (Un)Like Subjects: Women, Theory, Fiction.

Zusammenfassung

This book analyzes the roots of Irish social and sexual conservatism and the dramatic change in one of the most basic areas of human experience: how we understand our roles as men and women. It looks at the relationship between sexual and cultural dissent and the long, slow role of culture in generating change. Meaney offers the first major study that sets the relationship between national and gender identities in the context of analysis of Irish identity as white identity, tracing the identification of female sexuality with foreign threat in nationalist discourse and its consequences in contemporary representations of immigrant women and their children. The study presents an extended analysis of the relationship between feminism and nationalism, and between gender and modernism. Analyzing the role of Joyce in contemporary culture and Yeats and Synge in the understanding of tradition, it also sets their work in the context of their less known female contemporaries and challenges conventional understandings of the Irish literary tradition. The book concludes with an analysis of the relationship between race and masculinity in Irish characters in US and British culture, from Patriot Games to Rescue Me and The Wire, The Romans in Britain to M.I.5

Inhalt
Introduction Part I: Race, Women and Nation Chapter One: Virgin Mother Ireland Chapter Two: Landscapes of Desire: Women and Ireland in Twentieth Century Film Chapter Three: Feminisms, Nationalisms and Identities: Gender and Dissent Part II: Writing, Bodies, Canons Chapter Four: Modernism and the Gender of Writing Chapter Five: Haunting James Joyce: Invisible Bodies Chapter Six: The Sons of Cuchulainn: Violence, the Family, and the Irish Canon Part III: Race, Masculinity and Popular Culture Chapter Seven: The Devil's Own Patriot Games: The Troubles and the Hollywood Action Movie Chapter Eight: Masculinity and Ethnicity: The Wire and Rescue Me Chapter Nine: The Undercover Irishman: Extimating National Anxiety Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index