Irish Women's History

by Urquhart, Diane; Hayes, Alan

• ISBN13: 9780716527022
• ISBN10: 0716527022
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-01-01
• Publisher: Irish Academic Press

Summary

This book is a collection of new research relating to Irish women's history. It is presented in sections on the themes of work, religion, political participation and gendered representations. These themes cover a wide diversity of female experience and are written in a clear, concise style to make them accessible to both the academic and popular reader. The book represents the largest time scale in Irish women's history to date, ranging from the 6th to 20th centuries. Contributors are from Ireland, the UK, the US, Australia and Russia and represent both academic and independent research. Contributors include well-known academics from the fields of women's history/ women's studies as well as scholars who are at the beginning of their careers.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vii
Foreword	ix
Margaret MacCurtain
Introduction	xi
`Hail Brigit!': Gender, Authority and Worship in Early Ireland	1	(14)
Lisa M. Bitel
Necessary Collaborations: Religious Women and Lay Communities in Medieval Ireland, c. 1200--1540	15	(14)
Dianne Hall
`Mothers in Israel': Women, Family and Community in Early Irish Methodism	29	(14)
Rosemary Raughter
Peeresses, Patronage and Power: The Politics of Ladies Frances Anne, Theresa and Edith Londonderry, 1800--1959	43	(17)
Diane Urquhart
Nurses, Nuns and Ladies: A Study of Class, Ethnicity and Religion in the Crimean War	60	(12)
Moira E. Egan
Isabella Tod and Liberal Unionism in Ulster, 1886--96	72	(16)
Noel Armour
New Battlegrounds: The Development of the Salvation Army in Ireland in the Nineteenth Century	88	(15)
Grainne M. Blair
`Let the Girls Come Forth': The Early Feminist Ideology of the Irish Women Workers' Union	103	(12)
Alison Buckley
Hearths, Bodies and Minds: Gender Ideology and Women's Committal to Enniscorthy Lunatic Asylum, 1916--25	115	(22)
Aine McCarthy
The Press, Police and Prosecution: Perspectives on Infanticide in the 1920s	137	(15)
Louise Ryan
Irish Women's Emigration to England, 1922--60: The Lengthening of Family Ties	152	(16)
Sharon Lambert
Women Workers in Dublin and Belfast during the Second World War	168	(19)
Mary Muldowney
The Decline of Breast-Feeding in Twentieth-Century Ireland	187	(12)
Caitriona Clear
Afterword: A Feminine Occupation for a Female Audience?: A Future for Irish Women's History	199	(4)
Alan Hayes
Notes	203	(28)
Notes on Contributors	231	(2)
Index	233