Women, Reform, and Resistance in Ireland, 1850-1950

Women, Reform, and Resistance documents the challenges faced by Irish women from 1850 to 1950 and their complex reactions. By investigating prisons, and hospitals; interrogating court records and memoirs; and exploring the 'imaginative resistance' women expressed through folk tales; authors illuminate previously obscured experiences of Irish women.

This very welcome collection, featuring work by anthropologists and historians, offers an incisive look at Irish gender politics that I appreciate, first and foremost, because it is thoroughly intersectional. A much needed, expertly executed contribution to the conversation in Irish Studies, Women's Studies and Irish Women's Studies, it is well worth the investment and should perhaps be considered compulsory reading for students and scholars in these areas as well as Gender Studies more broadly. (Maureen E. Ruprecht Fadem, Irish Studies Review, Vol. 26 (1), December, 2017)

Autorentext
Lindsey Earner-Byrne, University College Dublin, Ireland Elaine Farrell, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland Brigittine French, Grinnell College, USA Margaret Preston, Augustana College, USA E. Moore Quinn, College of Charleston, usa Jennifer Redmond, NUI Maynooth, Ireland Conor Reidy, University of Limerick, Ireland Vanessa Rutherford, University College Cork, Ireland

Inhalt

1.'Souper, Souper, Go To Hell!': Women, Sectarianism, and Poverty in Nineteenth-Century Dublin; Margaret Preston 2.Regulating Poor Mothers: St. Ultan's Infant Hospital, Dublin from 1918; Vanessa Rutherford 3.Safeguarding Irish Girls: Welfare Work, Female Emigrants, and the Catholic Church, 1920s -1940s; Jennifer Redmond 4.'Should I Take Myself and Family to Another Religion [?]': Irish Catholic Women, Protest, and Conformity, 1920-1940; Lindsey Earner-Byrne 5.'Having an Immoral Conversation' and Other Prison Offenses: The Punishment of Convict Women; Elaine Farrell 6.Poverty, Alcohol, and the Women of the State Inebriate Reformatory in Ireland, 1900-1918; Conor Reidy 7.Gendered Speech and Engendering Citizenship in the Irish Free State: Ordinary Women and County Clare District Courts, 1932-1934; Brigittine French 8.Girls, the Body, and Sexual Knowledge in Modern Ireland; Cara Delay 9.'What Nobody Does Now': Imaginative Resistance of Rural Laboring Women; Christina S. Brophy 10.'All I Had Left Were My Words': The Widow's Curse in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Ireland; E. Moore Quinn