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When women are erased from history, what are we left with? Between
1912 and 1922, Ireland experienced sweeping social and political
change, including the Easter Rising, World War I, the Irish Civil
War, the fight for Irish women's suffrage, the founding of the
Abbey Theatre, and the passage of the Home Rule Bill. In
preparation for the centennial of this epic decade, the Irish
government formed a group of experts to oversee the ways in which
the country would remember this monumental time. Unfortunately, the
group was formed with no attempt at gender balance. Women and the
Decade of Commemorations, edited by Oona Frawley, highlights not
only the responsibilities of Irish women, past and present, but it
also privileges women's scholarship in an attempt to redress what
has been a long-standing imbalance. For example, contributors note
the role of the Waking the Feminists movement, which was ignited
when, in 2016, the Abbey Theater released its male-dominated
centenary program. They also discuss the importance of addressing
missing history and curating memory to correct the historical
record when it comes to remembering revolution. Together, the
essays in Women and the Decade of Commemorations consider the
impact of women's unseen, unsung work, which has been critically
important in shaping Ireland, a country that continues to struggle
with honoring the full role of women today.
An exciting collection of essays revealing the tremendous diversity of women's experiences in Ireland's past. For the first time this unique book draws together key articles published in the fields of Irish women's history and women's studies over the past two decades, including contributions from Ireland, North and South, England, USA, Canada and Australia. It explores the lives of ordinary Irish women since 1800, looking at the key themes of: * historiography and the development of women's history in Ireland * politics and the variety of political activities undertaken by women * health and sexuality revealing hidden histories of sexual activity, mental illness and attempts to control fertility * religion and the experiences of catholic nuns, protestant evangelicals and salvationists * emigration and the pattern of female migration to USA, Britain and Australia * work including both paid and unpaid employ inside and outside the home.
The Irish Women's History Reader is an exciting collection of essays revealing the tremendous diversity of women's experiences in Ireland's past. For the first time this unique book draws together key articles published in the fields of Irish women's history and women's studies over the past two decades, including contributions from Ireland, North and South, England, USA, Canada and Australia. The Irish Women's History Reader explores the lives of ordinary Irish women since 1800, looking at the key themes of: * Historiography and the development of, and writing of, women's history in Ireland * Politics and the variety of political activities undertaken by women including suffrage, nationalism and unionism * Health and sexuality revealing hidden histories of sexual activity, mental illness and attempts to control fertility * Religion and the experiences of catholic nuns, protestant evangelicals and salvationists * Emigration and the pattern of female migration to USA, Britain and Australia * Work including both paid and unpaid employ inside and outside the home.
When women are erased from history, what are we left with? Between
1912 and 1922, Ireland experienced sweeping social and political
change, including the Easter Rising, World War I, the Irish Civil
War, the fight for Irish women's suffrage, the founding of the
Abbey Theatre, and the passage of the Home Rule Bill. In
preparation for the centennial of this epic decade, the Irish
government formed a group of experts to oversee the ways in which
the country would remember this monumental time. Unfortunately, the
group was formed with no attempt at gender balance. Women and the
Decade of Commemorations, edited by Oona Frawley, highlights not
only the responsibilities of Irish women, past and present, but it
also privileges women's scholarship in an attempt to redress what
has been a long-standing imbalance. For example, contributors note
the role of the Waking the Feminists movement, which was ignited
when, in 2016, the Abbey Theater released its male-dominated
centenary program. They also discuss the importance of addressing
missing history and curating memory to correct the historical
record when it comes to remembering revolution. Together, the
essays in Women and the Decade of Commemorations consider the
impact of women's unseen, unsung work, which has been critically
important in shaping Ireland, a country that continues to struggle
with honoring the full role of women today.
This book reframes the Irish abortion narrative within the history
of women's reproductive health and explores the similarities and
differences that shaped the history of abortion within the two
states on the island of Ireland. Since the legalisation of abortion
in Britain in 1967, an estimated 200,000 women have travelled from
Ireland to England for an abortion. However, this abortion trail is
at least a century old and began with women migrating to Britain to
flee moral intolerance in Ireland towards unmarried mothers and
their offspring. This study highlights how attitudes to unmarried
motherhood reflected a broader cultural acceptance that morality
should trump concerns regarding maternal health. This rationale
bled into social and political responses to birth control and
abortion and was underpinned by an acknowledgement that in
prioritising morality some women would die.
This is the first history of Irish divorce. Spanning the island of
Ireland over three centuries, it places the human experience of
marriage breakdown centre stage to explore the impact of a highly
restrictive and gendered law and its reform. It considers the
accessibility of Irish divorce as it moved from a parliamentary
process in Westminster, the Irish parliament and the Northern
Ireland parliament to a court-based process. This socio-legal
approach allows changing definitions of gendered marital roles and
marital cruelty to be assessed. In charting the exceptionalism of
Ireland's divorce provision in a European and imperial framework,
the study uncovers governmental reluctance to reform Irish divorce
law which spans jurisdictions and centuries. This was therefore not
only a law dictated by religious strictures but also by a
long-lived moral conservatism.
Against a backdrop of increasing democratic freedom and the
associated process of aristocratic decline, this book examines the
political influence of the leading Tory hostesses, the
Marchionesses of Londonderry. Over one hundred and fifty years,
from 1800-1959, these women were patrons and confidantes to key
political figures such as Disraeli, Bonar Law, Edward Carson and
Ramsay MacDonald. By the late nineteenth century upper-class women
were at the height of their prowess, exerting political sway by
private means whilst exploiting more public avenues of political
work: canvassing, addressing meetings and leading the new
associations established in an attempt to educate a mass
electorate. At that time this hybrid of private and public
aristocratic politicking aroused little criticism but, by the
interwar period, the alleged hold that the 7th Marchioness of
Londonderry, Edith Vane-Tempest-Stewart, had over MacDonald
prompted widespread criticism of her role as the 'Mother' of the
National Government. The Ladies of Londonderry offers the first
examination of the powerful political hostesses of the Anglo-Irish
establishment and sheds considerable light on the workings of
nineteenth- and twentieth-century politics.
Against a backdrop of increasing democracy and the associated
process of aristocratic decline, this book examines the political
influence of the leading Tory hostesses, the Marchionesses of
Londonderry. Over one hundred and fifty years, from 1800-1959,
these women were patrons and confidantes to key political figures
such as Disraeli, Bonar Law, Edward Carson and Ramsay MacDonald. By
the late 19th century upper-class women were at the height of their
prowess, exerting political sway by private means whilst exploiting
more public avenues of political work: canvassing, addressing
meetings and leading the new associations established in an attempt
to educate a mass electorate. At that time this hybrid of private
and public aristocratic politicking aroused little criticism but,
by the interwar period, the hold that the 7th Marchioness of
Londonderry, Edith Vane-Tempest-Stewart, allegedly had over
MacDonald prompted widespread criticism of her role as the 'Mother'
of the National Government.
"The Ladies of Londonderry" offers the first examination of the
powerful political hostesses of the Anglo-Irish establishment and
sheds considerable light on the workings of 19th and 20th-century
politics.
This book is a collection of new research relating to Irish women's
history. It is presented in sections on the themes of work,
religion, political participation and gendered representations.
These themes cover a wide diversity of female experience and are
written in a clear, concise style to make them accessible to both
the academic and popular reader. The book represents the largest
time scale in Irish women's history to date, ranging from the 6th
to 20th centuries. Contributors are from Ireland, the UK, the US,
Australia and Russia and represent both academic and independent
research. Contributors include well-known academics from the fields
of women's history/ women's studies as well as scholars who are at
the beginning of their careers.
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