Gender and history : Ireland, 1852-1922 / edited by Ciara Breathnach, Jyoti Atwal, Sarah-Anne Buckley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ciara Breathnach, editor.

Jyoti Atwal, editor.

Sarah-Anne Buckley, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Ireland--History--20th century.

Women.

Women--Ireland--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (312 pages)

Other Title:

Gender and History

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Taylor & Francis, 2023.

Summary:

This book provides an overview of Irish gender history from the end of the Great Famine in 1852 until the foundation of the Irish Free State in 1922. It builds on the work that scholars of women's history pioneered and brings together internationally regarded experts to offer a synthesis of the current historiography and existing debates within the field. The authors place emphasis on highlighting new and exciting sources, methodologies, and suggested areas for future research. They address a variety of critical themes such as the family, reproduction and sexuality, the medical and prison systems, masculinities and femininities, institutions, charity, the missions, migration, 'elite women', and the involvement of women in the Irish nationalist/revolutionary period. Envisioned to be both thematic and chronological, the book provides insight into the comparative, transnational, and connected histories of Ireland, India, and the British empire. An important contribution to the study of Irish gender history, the volume offers opportunities for students and researchers to learn from the methods and historiography of Irish studies. It will be useful for scholars and teachers of history, gender studies, colonialism, post-colonialism, European history, Irish history, Irish studies, and political history.

Contents:

Preface: Women in Ireland, Introduction

Section 1: Culture, Family and Society

1. Gender and the Irish Family, 1852-1922

2. Gender and Migration: The Irish Experience, 1850-1922

3. Gender and the Ascendancy: The Families Who Owned, and Lost, the Island of Ireland, 1852-1922

4. Doing Good? Irish Women, Catholicism and Charity, 1852-1922

5. Gender and the Irish Language in Post-Famine Ireland

Section 2: Health, Welfare and Institutionalisation

6. Gender, Medicine and the State in Ireland, 1852-1922

7. 'A Fat, Pompous Old Woman, Ignorant, and Illiterate': Popular Midwifery in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

8. Gender, Folklore and Magical Healing in Ireland, 1852-1922

9. Gender and Insanity in Ireland, 1800-1923

10. Institutionalisation and Gender: From the Foundling Hospitals to the Mother and Baby Homes

Section 3: Sex and Sexuality

11. Crime, Punishment and Gender

12. Women, Sexuality and Reproduction, 1850-1922

13. The Emergence of Irish Masculinity Studies

14. Homosexuality and Lesbianism in Irish Newspapers, 1861-1922

Section 4: Politics and Revolution

15. Women's Educational Activism and Higher Education in Ireland, 1850-1912

16. 'The Peeress and the Peasant': Popular Mobilisation and the Ulster Women's Unionist Council, 1911-21

17. 'A Voice in the Affairs of the Nation': Irish Women and Nationalism 1872-1922

18. 'A Political Nonentity with Infants, Criminals, and Lunatics': First Wave Feminism in Ireland 1872-1922

19. Margaret Elizabeth Cousinsand Transnationalism: An Irish Suffragist as an Anti-Colonial Feminist in Colonial India

20. Female Revolutionaries and Political Violence in India and Ireland, 1919-39

Index.

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