Women, Reform, and Resistance in Ireland, 18501950 [Hardcover]

Women, Reform, and Resistance documents the challenges faced by Irish women from 1850 to 1950 and their complex reactions. By investigating prisons, and hospitals; interrogating court records and memoirs; and exploring the 'imaginative resistance' women expressed through folk tales; authors illuminate previously obscured experiences of Irish women.

This very welcome collection, featuring work by anthropologists and historians, offers an incisive look at Irish gender politics that I appreciate, first and foremost, because it is thoroughly intersectional. & A much needed, expertly executed contribution to the conversation in Irish Studies, Womens Studies and Irish Womens Studies, it is well worth the investment and should perhaps be considered compulsory reading for students and scholars in these areas as well as Gender Studies more broadly. (Maureen E. Ruprecht Fadem, Irish Studies Review, Vol. 26 (1), December, 2017)

Lindsey Earner-Byrne, University College Dublin, Ireland Elaine Farrell, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland Brigittine French, Grinnell College, USA Margaret Preston, Augustana College, USA E. Moore Quinn, College of Charleston, usa Jennifer Redmond, NUI Maynooth, Ireland Conor Reidy, University of Limerick, Ireland Vanessa Rutherford, University College Cork, Ireland'Brophy and Delay's eclectic mix of historical essays provide accounts of struggles faced, and lives lived, by mn? na h?ireann (the women of Ireland). Each essay can be read either as active engagement in, or resistance to, social, legal and cultural reform in modern Ireland. Covering a diverse range of themes from philanthropy both as actors and agents- deviant behavior, criminality, patriarchy and folk beliefs, the entire social spectrum finds representation in this lively read, which will appeal to scholars of Irish studies, gender, and world histories alike.'

-Ciara Breathnach, Lecturer in History, University of Limerick, Ireland

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