Theory on the edge : Irish studies and the politics of sexual difference / edited by Noreen Giffney and Margrit Shildrick.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Giffney, Noreen.

Shildrick, Margrit.

Series:

Breaking feminist waves

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminism--Ireland.

Feminism.

Sex--Ireland.

Sex.

Ireland--Social policy.

Ireland.

Social policy.

Ireland--Civilization.

Civilization.

Ireland--Social life and customs.

Manners and customs.

Physical Description:

x, 289 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Summary:

Theory on the Edge brings together leading researchers working at the interface between Irish Studies and theories of gender and sexuality in an effort to trace the development of feminist thinking and activism in Ireland over the past forty years. From queer theory to postfeminism, LGBT rights to abortion, immigration to emigration, postcolonialism to psychoanalysis, chapters trace the social, political; legal, religious, and educational developments in Ireland and its diasporas. The authors celebrate, more specifically, the academic, literary, and political efforts of the Irish public intellectual, theorist, and activist Ailbhe Smyth, while pushing work on gender and sexuality in challenging new directions. Contributors include Ivana Bacik, Paula Burns, Olga Cox Cameron, Lisa Fingleton, Noreen Giffney, Debbie Ging, Breda Gray, Eithne Luibheid, Sandra McAvoy, Gerardine Meaney, Anne Mulhall, Aideen Quilty, Medb Ruane, Margrit Shildrick, Edith Shillue, Ailbhe Smyth, Moynagh Sullivan, Fintan Walsh, and Margaret Ward. Book jacket.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

Notes on contributors

Introduction: emergent strands or theory on edge? / Margrit Shildrick

Politics

The politics of sexual difference : the enduring influence of the Catholic Church / Ivana Bacik

Rethinking the Armagh women's dirty protest / Paula Burns

The state, women and Irish abortion policy, 1983-2010 / Sandra McAvoy

Irish migration and Irish sexuality scholarship : queering the connections / Eithne Luibhéid

Affecting trans-feminist solidarity / Breda Gray

Wonderful documents and male begrudgery : post-conflict reconstruction in Northern Ireland / Margaret Ward

Pride, politics, and the right to perform : negotiating civil partnership in Ireland / Fintan Walsh

Culture

Race, sex and nation / Gerardine Meaney

Outside-in and the places in-between : feminist community higher education / Aideen Quilty

"Watch your language" : speculative theory and the poetry of Rita Ann Higgins / Moynagh Sullivan

Knowing the landscape : navigating the language : Chinese women's experience of arrival in Ireland / Edith Shillue

Enjoying substance : psychoanalysis, literature and Joyce's writing of women / Olga Cox Cameron

Culture on the edge : the postfeminist challenge / Debbie Ging

A cure for melancholia? : queer sons, dead mothers and the fantasy of multiculturalism in McCabe's and Jordan's breakfast on Pluto(s) / Anne Mulhall

Quare theory / Noreen Giffney

Interview with Ailbhe Smyth / Bedb Ruane.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137306975

1137306971

OCLC:

825106430