Imperial Feminists and the Irish Question : Collaboration, Resistance and the Limits of Solidarity, 1900-1921 / Erin Geraghty.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Geraghty, Erin, author.

Series:

Empires Other Histories.

Empires Other Histories

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Irish question.

Women--Political activity--British Isles--History--20th century.

Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2026.

System Details:

text file rdaft

Summary:

In the early 20th century, women across the British Isles united to fight for the right to vote, for fair pay and good working conditions, and for an end to war, but what did this unity look like across the colonial border between Ireland and England? This book offers a fresh perspective on the history of empire and feminism by exploring the changing nature of political solidarity between English and Irish feminists, socialists, and pacifists during the first two decades of the twentieth century. Demonstrating how Ireland offered English women a space in which to act upon their patriotic duty as mothers of empire in order to alleviate the degraded status of their colonial sisters, Geraghty shows how this imperial feminism was an integral part of English womens demand for political freedoms. Their political ideologies, shaped during a time of heightened imperial loyalties, did not disappear with the gaining of partial franchise in 1918, but remained a pervasive part of their politics and impacted the ways in which they engaged with the Irish struggle for independence and Irish womens political emancipation. Imperial Feminists exposes the difficulties of building and maintaining grassroots feminist and socialist solidarities at a time of heightened imperial loyalties and changing internationalist politics.

Contents:

Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction 1. English Suffragists Go to Ireland 2. English Feminist-Socialists and the 1913 Dublin Lockout 3. The Easter Rising and the Boundaries of Feminist Solidarity 4. English Feminists Go to Ireland Once More: The War of Independence and Post-War Internationalism Conclusion Bibliography

Notes:

Creative Commons. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

ISBN:

9781350529069

OCLC:

1613526082