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Reading the Irishwoman
Gerardine Meaney
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Description for Reading the Irishwoman
Hardcover. The first analysis of the Enlightenment and Irish women and the most comprehensive study to date of Irish women and American emigration. Irish women negotiated, selected and at times defied the representations of womanhood presented to them in official and commercially sponsored media. Series: Reappraisals in Irish History. Num Pages: 272 pages, 2 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBLL; HBLW; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 160 x 21. Weight in Grams: 558.
An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.
The theme of this book is cultural encounter and exchange in Irish women’s lives. Using three case studies: the Enlightenment, emigration and modernism, it analyses reading and popular and consumer culture as sites of negotiation of gender roles. It traces how the circulation of ideas, fantasies and aspirations which have shaped women’s lives in actuality and in imagination and argues that there were many different ways of being a woman. Attention to women’s cultural consumption and production shows that one ... Read more
An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.
The theme of this book is cultural encounter and exchange in Irish women’s lives. Using three case studies: the Enlightenment, emigration and modernism, it analyses reading and popular and consumer culture as sites of negotiation of gender roles. It traces how the circulation of ideas, fantasies and aspirations which have shaped women’s lives in actuality and in imagination and argues that there were many different ways of being a woman. Attention to women’s cultural consumption and production shows that one ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Series
Reappraisals in Irish History
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846318924
SKU
V9781846318924
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Ref
99-50
About Gerardine Meaney
Gerardine Meaney is Director of the Humanities Institute of Ireland at University College Dublin. Mary O’Dowd is Professor in the School of History and Anthropology at Queen’s University, Belfast. Bernadette Whelan is Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Limerick.
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