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Irish women's studies reader / edited by Ailbhe Smyth.

Contributor(s): Smyth, Ailbhe, 1946-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Dublin : Attic Press, 1993Description: vii, 279 p. ; 22 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 1855940523.Subject(s): Women's studies -- Ireland | Feminism -- Ireland | Women's rights -- Ireland | Women -- Social conditions -- IrelandDDC classification: 305.42
Contents:
The silencing of women in childbirth or let's hear it for Bartholemew and the boys / Jo Murphy-Lawless -- 'Suffrage first - above all else!" An account of the Irish suffrage movement / Margaret Ward -- Political interest and participation of Irish women 1922-1992: The unfinished revolution / Frances Gardiner -- The church, the state and the women's movement in Northern Ireland / Monica McWilliams -- Women and the law in Ireland / Mary Robinson -- Rape: myths and reality / Madeleine Leonard -- The relationship between women's work and poverty / Mary Daly -- Revealing figures? official statistics and rural Irish women / Anne Byrne -- Women and poverty / Eileen Evason -- Bringing the margins into the centre: A review of aspects of Irish women's emigration / Ann Rossiter -- Moving statues and Irish women / Margaret MacCurtain -- The Irish travelling woman: mother and mermaid / Mary O'Malley Madec -- Sex and nation: Women in Irish culture and politics / Geraldine Meaney -- The women's movement in the republic of Ireland 1970-1990 / Ailbhe Smyth.

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This first comprehensive interdisciplinary reader for course work in Irish/Women's studies, includes 14 essays with work by Monica McWilliams, Mary Robinson (President of Ireland), Margaret MacCurtain and Ann Rossiter.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The silencing of women in childbirth or let's hear it for Bartholemew and the boys / Jo Murphy-Lawless -- 'Suffrage first - above all else!" An account of the Irish suffrage movement / Margaret Ward -- Political interest and participation of Irish women 1922-1992: The unfinished revolution / Frances Gardiner -- The church, the state and the women's movement in Northern Ireland / Monica McWilliams -- Women and the law in Ireland / Mary Robinson -- Rape: myths and reality / Madeleine Leonard -- The relationship between women's work and poverty / Mary Daly -- Revealing figures? official statistics and rural Irish women / Anne Byrne -- Women and poverty / Eileen Evason -- Bringing the margins into the centre: A review of aspects of Irish women's emigration / Ann Rossiter -- Moving statues and Irish women / Margaret MacCurtain -- The Irish travelling woman: mother and mermaid / Mary O'Malley Madec -- Sex and nation: Women in Irish culture and politics / Geraldine Meaney -- The women's movement in the republic of Ireland 1970-1990 / Ailbhe Smyth.

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