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Fanny Lewald: Between Rebellion and Renunciation provides the first
comprehensive account in English of the life and work of Fanny
Lewald (1811-1889), tracing the way she positioned herself -
sometimes precariously - between rebellion and renunciation. All
genres are considered: novels and stories, autobiography, travel
literature, essays, diaries, and letters. Widely recognized as one
of the early German advocates of women's right to education and
work, this study places Lewald's views on these issues in a broadly
comparative cultural context. This book will, therefore, be of
interest not only to specialists in German literature, but also to
students and scholars of European cultural and social history,
Jewish studies, and women's studies.
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.
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.
Hanna Sheehy Skeffington was the most significant feminist in
twentieth-century Ireland - an activist, writer and polemicist of
the highest rank. An advocate of feminism, socialism, and
republicanism, her writings - published in Britain and America as
well as Ireland - transcended national boundaries. In these pages
we experience the excitement of the suffrage years, anti-war
campaigns, prison experiences, the impact of the brutal killing of
her husband, meetings with Prime Minister Asquith and President
Wilson, the bitter years of civil war, impressions of Bolshevik
Russia, inter-war Europe, her friendship with Constance Markievicz,
debates with Sean O'Casey, and her involvement in feminist
campaigns against the exclusion of women from public life during
the 1930s and 1940s. Her organisational abilities were recognised
by the leaders of the Easter Rising, who agreed she would be the
sole female member of a civil provisional government, to be formed
if the Rising was a success.She remained an activist throughout her
life, an advocate for a Workers' Republic, serving a prison
sentence in Armagh jail in 1933, campaigning against the
Constitution in 1937 and standing for election to the Dail as an
independent feminist in 1943. Her political writings, including
book and theatre reviews, newspaper articles, reminiscences,
interviews, obituaries, and analysis of key events in the first
half of the twentieth century- authoritative, passionate and witty
- provide the reader with an indispensable source for understanding
the personalities and the issues behind the long march for women's
equality and national independence in Ireland.
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Eavan Boland, Eaven Boland, Clodagh Corcoran, Carol Coulter; As told to Margaret Ward, …
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A collection of provocative writings on contemporary issues and
controversies, by Irish women writers, thinkers and activists
including: Eavan Boland, Clodagh Corcoran, Carol Coulter, Gretchen
Fitzgerald, Maureen Gaffney, Trudy Hayes, Edna Longley, Gerardine
Meaney, Ruth Riddick, Helena Sheehan, Ethna Viney, and Margaret
Ward. This is a collection of the best of the LIP pamphlet series
published during the past ten years.
The publication in 1986 of Anna Parnell's The Tale of a Great Sham,
scrupulously edited and annotated by Dana Hearne, was a landmark
event in Irish women's history. For the first time the general
reader was able to read an account of the land war written by the
woman who at the time had been hailed as the Irish 'Joan of Arc'.
She was now impoverished and disillusioned but remained acutely
sensitive to Irish political developments. Her version of the past
was, as Hearne recognised: 'a searing attack on the male leadership
of the Land League and a penetrating critique of its major
political strategy - the strategy which came to be known as "Rent
at the Point of the Bayonet". It is also a painfully revealing
account of the inability of most key Nationalist men to work on an
equal footing with Nationalist women.' Long out of print, this
welcome re-publication - with a compelling overview of the period
by leading feminist historian Dr Margaret Ward - will enable a new
generation to decide for themselves whether the strategy developed
by the male leadership, explained and criticised with such forensic
precision by Anna, succeeded in producing no more than the
'ridiculous mouse' of the 1881 Land Act, which she believed
supported landlord power and reinforced an ineffectual
parliamentary path to political change in Ireland, rather than the
radical mass movement she favoured. Anna was a pioneering feminist
and nationalist activist who challenged male authority and is a
beacon to all who followed in her footsteps. The Tale of a Great
Sham is history in her words. Read, know, and celebrate Anna
Parnell.
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This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical
literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles
have been out of print and off the bookstore shelves for decades.
The book series is intended to preserve the cultural legacy and to
promote the timeless works of classical literature. Readers of a
TREDITION CLASSICS book support the mission to save many of the
amazing works of world literature from oblivion. With this series,
tredition intends to make thousands of international literature
classics available in printed format again - worldwide.
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