Irish Women's History

by Urquhart, Diane; Hayes, Alan

• ISBN13: 9780716527169
• ISBN10: 0716527162
• Format: Paperback
• 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	p. vii
Foreword	p. ix
Introduction	p. xi
'Hail Brigit!': Gender, Authority and Worship in Early Ireland	p. 1
Necessary Collaborations: Religious Women and Lay Communities in Medieval Ireland, c. 1200-1540	p. 15
'Mothers in Israel': Women, Family and Community in Early Irish Methodism	p. 29
Peeresses, Patronage and Power: The Politics of Ladies Frances Anne, Theresa and Edith Londonderry, 1800-1959	p. 43
Nurses, Nuns and Ladies: A Study of Class, Ethnicity and Religion in the Crimean War	p. 60
Isabella Tod and Liberal Unionism in Ulster, 1886-96	p. 72
New Battlegrounds: The Development of the Salvation Army in Ireland in the Nineteenth Century	p. 88
'Let the Girls Come Forth': The Early Feminist Ideology of the Irish Women Workers' Union	p. 103
Hearths, Bodies and Minds: Gender Ideology and Women's Committal to Enniscorthy Lunatic Asylum, 1916-25	p. 115
The Press, Police and Prosecution: Perspectives on Infanticide in the 1920s	p. 137
Irish Women's Emigration to England, 1922-60: The Lengthening of Family Ties	p. 152
Women Workers in Dublin and Belfast during the Second World War	p. 168
The Decline of Breast-Feeding in Twentieth-Century Ireland	p. 187
Afterword: A Feminine Occupation for a Female Audience?: A Future for Irish Women's History	p. 199
Notes	p. 203
Notes on Contributors	p. 231
Index	p. 233
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