Gender and History (eBook, PDF)

Ireland, 1852-1922
Redaktion: Atwal, Jyoti; Buckley, Sarah-Anne; Breathnach, Ciara

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Produktbeschreibung

This book provides an overview of Irish gender history beginning from the end of the Great Famine in 1852 till the foundation of the Irish Free State in 1922.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. August 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000683714
• Artikelnr.: 64928643

Autorenporträt

Jyoti Atwal is Associate Professor at the Centre for Historical Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, and Adjunct Professor at Department of History, Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Limerick, Ireland (2017-2022). She specialises in gender history of India in the colonial and post-colonial contexts. She launched a master's level course on Irish women's history at JNU in 2017. She has recently co-edited a book with Professor Eunan O'Halpin titled, India, Ireland and Anti-Imperial Struggle: Remembering the Connaught Rangers Mutiny, 1920 (2021, funded by the Embassy of Ireland, New Delhi). Her other publications include a co-edited volume on Gender and Violence in Historical and Contemporary Perspectives: Situating India (2020). She has authored Real and Imagined Widows: Gender Relations in Colonial North India (2016). She has been a Visiting Fellow at various universities across the globe. She is on the editorial board of Women's History Review. Presently she is working on a biography of Margaret Cousins (1878-1954). Ciara Breathnach is Associate Professor in History at the University of Limerick and an Irish Research Council Laureate Awardee 2017/32. She has published widely on Irish socio-economic, gender, cultural and health history. Her current monograph is Ordinary Lives, Death and Social Class: Dublin City Coroner's Court, 1876-1902 (Oxford University Press, 2022). Sarah-Anne Buckley is Head of the Department of History at the National University of Ireland Galway and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Lifecourse and Society (ILAS). Her research centres on the history of childhood and youth, gender, and women in modern Ireland. She has published over twenty peer reviewed articles/chapters, five edited volumes and is the author of The Cruelty Man: Child Welfare, the NSPCC and the State in Ireland, 1889-1956 (2013). Her 2020 co-authored book Old Ireland in Colour was the recipient of the "An Post Best Irish Published Book of the Year 2020". Her work has been cited in The New York Times and CNN. She is past President of the Women's History Association of Ireland (WHAI), and current Co-PI of the Tuam Oral History Project.

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Preface: Women in Ireland
Introduction
Section 1: Culture
Family and Society
1. Gender and the Irish Family
1852-1922
2. Gender and Migration: The Irish Experience
1850-1922
3. Gender and the Ascendancy: The Families Who Owned
and Lost
the Island of Ireland
1852-1922
4. Doing Good? Irish Women
Catholicism and Charity
1852-1922
5. Gender and the Irish Language in Post-Famine Ireland
Section 2: Health
Welfare and Institutionalisation
6. Gender
Medicine and the State in Ireland
1852-1922
7. 'A Fat
Pompous Old Woman
Ignorant
and Illiterate': Popular Midwifery in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
8. Gender
Folklore and Magical Healing in Ireland
1852-1922
9. Gender and Insanity in Ireland
1800-1923
10. Institutionalisation and Gender: From the Foundling Hospitals to the Mother and Baby Homes
Section 3: Sex and Sexuality
11. Crime
Punishment and Gender
12. Women
Sexuality and Reproduction
1850-1922
13. The Emergence of Irish Masculinity Studies
14. Homosexuality and Lesbianism in Irish Newspapers
1861-1922
Section 4: Politics and Revolution
15. Women's Educational Activism and Higher Education in Ireland
1850-1912
16. 'The Peeress and the Peasant': Popular Mobilisation and the Ulster Women's Unionist Council
1911-21
17. 'A Voice in the Affairs of the Nation': Irish Women and Nationalism 1872-1922
18. 'A Political Nonentity with Infants
Criminals
and Lunatics': First Wave Feminism in Ireland 1872-1922
19. Margaret Elizabeth Cousinsand Transnationalism: An Irish Suffragist as an Anti-Colonial Feminist in Colonial India
20. Female Revolutionaries and Political Violence in India and Ireland
1919-39