Gender and Sexuality in Ireland / John Gibney (editor).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gibney, John, 1976- editor.

Series:

Irish perspectives.

Irish Perspectives Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Ireland--Social conditions.

Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (162 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Barnsley, England : Pen & Sword Books Ltd, [2019]

Summary:

The history of sexuality in Ireland remains relatively understudied when compared with the more well-worn paths of political and military history, but that is not to say that it has never been considered. Now, in the fourth installment of the 'Irish perspectives' collaboration between Pen and Sword and History Ireland, a range of experts explore Irish history from the perspective of the broad concept of sexuality, in both theory and practice. From the legalities that defined gender roles in the middle ages and early modern periods, to women's role in political life and civil society, Gender and Sexuality in Ireland provides a comprehensive overview of the nation's understanding and relationship with sexuality and patriarchy. Population change, prostitution, incarceration, infanticide, abortion and homophobia are all considered alongside attempts to impose - and ignore - Catholic morality in independent Ireland. Struggles for women's rights and reproductive rights, the culture wars of the 1980s, and Irish people simply trying to have good sex lives, the essays gathered here cast light on aspects of Ireland's past that are often overlooked in more mainstream narratives of Irish history.

Contents:

Cover

Book Title

Copyright

Table of Contents

Preface

Contributors

Introduction

Chapter One 'History women and history men': The politics of women's history

Chapter Two Marriage in medieval Ireland

Chapter Three Career wives or wicked stepmothers? Marriage and divorce in the Pale

Chapter Four Women and patriotism in eighteenth-century Ireland

Chapter Five 'Better without the ladies': The Royal Irish Academy and the admission of women members

Chapter Six 'Women of the pave': Prostitution in Ireland

Chapter Seven A sexual revolution in the west of Ireland? Workhouses and illegitimacy in post-Famine Ireland

Chapter Eight 'Most vicious and refractory girls': The reformatories at Ballinasloe and Monaghan

Chapter Nine Casement's 'Black diaries': Closed books reopened

Chapter Ten Roger Casement and the history question

Chapter Eleven Dancing, depravity and all that jazz: The Public Dance Halls Act of 1935

Chapter Twelve Internal tamponage, hockey parturition and mixed athletics

Chapter Thirteen 'No worse and no better: Irishwomen and backstreet abortions

Chapter Fourteen 'Sisters sentenced to death: Infanticide in independent Ireland

Chapter Fifteen 'Unrelenting deference'? Official resistance to Catholic moral panic in the mid-twentieth century

Chapter Sixteen Ask Angela: Reappraising the Irish 'sexual repression' narrative

Chapter Seventeen 'Spreading VD all over Connacht': Reproductive rights and wrongs in 1970s Galway

Chapter Eighteen Recollections of the Irish women's liberation movement

Chapter Nineteen Breaking the silence on abortion: The 1983 referendum campaign

Further reading

Back Cover.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781526736826

1526736829

9781526736802

1526736802

OCLC:

1223085486