| Gender and Sexuality in Modern Ireland Contributor(s): Bradley, Anthony (Editor), Valiulis, Maryann (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1558491317 ISBN-13: 9781558491311 Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press OUR PRICE: $27.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 1997 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: This timely collection of essays focuses on issues of gender and sexuality in Irish history, biography, language, literature, and drama. The book's concern with gender and sexuality connects a series of interweaving narratives that at once complicate and enrich our understanding of what it means to be Irish. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Gender Studies - History | Europe - Ireland |
| Dewey: 305.309 |
| LCCN: 97-26859 |
| Lexile Measure: 1550 |
| Physical Information: 0.99" H x 8.97" W x 6.02" (1.08 lbs) 336 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Western Europe - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Trenchant essays on twentieth-century Irish history and culture This timely collection of essays focuses on issues of gender and sexuality in Irish history, biography, language, literature, and drama. While the contributors employ a variety of methodological and critical perspectives, they share the conviction that the gendering of Ireland -- not only of the nation, but of actual Irish men and women -- is a construction of culture and ideology and not simply one of nature. The essays address such topics as the recent divorce referendum; homoerotic desire in the Irish literary renaissance and in recent drama and film; Irish women's history; intersections of gender with nationalism and colonialism; the Irish language and feminism; contemporary Irish poetry; the significance of gender in emigration from Ireland to the United States; and the political importance of the work of Irish religious women in the first half of the century. The book's concern with gender and sexuality makes possible a series of interweaving narratives that at once complicate and enrich our understanding of what it means to be Irish. |