Gender Ireland And Cultural Change

Author : Gerardine Meaney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135165635

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Gender, Ireland and Cultural Change by Gerardine Meaney Pdf

This book analyzes the roots of Irish social and sexual conservatism and the dramatic change in one of the most basic areas of human experience: how we understand our roles as men and women. It looks at the relationship between sexual and cultural dissent and the long, slow role of culture in generating change. Meaney offers the first major study that sets the relationship between national and gender identities in the context of analysis of Irish identity as white identity, tracing the identification of female sexuality with foreign threat in nationalist discourse and its consequences in contemporary representations of immigrant women and their children. The study presents an extended analysis of the relationship between feminism and nationalism, and between gender and modernism. Analyzing the role of Joyce in contemporary culture and Yeats and Synge in the understanding of tradition, it also sets their work in the context of their less known female contemporaries and challenges conventional understandings of the Irish literary tradition. The book concludes with an analysis of the relationship between race and masculinity in Irish characters in US and British culture, from Patriot Games to Rescue Me and The Wire, The Romans in Britain to M.I.5

Author : Gerardine Meaney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135165642

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Gender, Ireland and Cultural Change by Gerardine Meaney Pdf

This study analyzes the role of gender in Irish cultural change from the 1890s to the present, exploring literature, the relationships between gender and national identities, and the recognized major political and cultural movements of the twentieth century. It includes discussion of film, television and, popular music, as well as diverse literary texts by authors such as Joyce, Yeats, Wilde, and Boland.

Author : Conn Holohan,Tony Tracy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137300249

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Masculinity and Irish Popular Culture by Conn Holohan,Tony Tracy Pdf

Masculinity and Irish Popular Culture: Tiger's Tales is an interdisciplinary collection of essays by established and emerging scholars, analysing the shifting representations of Irish men across a range of popular culture forms in the period of the Celtic Tiger and beyond.

Author : Sarah O’Connor,Christopher C. Shepard
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443806930

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Women, Social and Cultural Change in Twentieth Century Ireland by Sarah O’Connor,Christopher C. Shepard Pdf

Drawing from a range of disciplines, this book pivots around the central concept of women, social and cultural change in Ireland during the twentieth century. The interdisciplinary, inter-institutional nature of the work gathered here aims to challenge monolithic representations of Irish female identity. Utilising new sources and theoretical frameworks, the contributors to this volume expose women’s disparate political, social and cultural backgrounds, highlighting the concept of woman as a ‘site’ of exchange, overlap and variation. This collection represents not only the work of a vibrant research community but aims to make a lasting contribution to the study of women in twentieth century Ireland.

Author : Deirdre Flynn,Ciara L. Murphy
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000588354

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Austerity and Irish Women’s Writing and Culture, 1980–2020 by Deirdre Flynn,Ciara L. Murphy Pdf

Austerity and Irish Women’s Writing and Culture, 1980–2020 focuses on the under-represented relationship between austerity and Irish women’s writing across the last four decades. Taking a wide focus across cultural mediums, this collection of essays from leading scholars in Irish studies considers how economic policies impacted on and are represented in Irish women’s writing during critical junctures in recent Irish history. Through an investigation of cultural production north and south of the border, this collection analyses women’s writing using a multimedium approach through four distinct lenses: austerity, feminism, and conflict; arts and austerity; race and austerity; and spaces of austerity. This collection asks two questions: what sort of cultural output does austerity produce? And if the effects of austerity are gendered, then what are the gender-specific responses to financial insecurity, both national and domestic? By investigating how austerity is treated in women’s writing and culture from 1980 to 2020, this collection provides a much-needed analysis of the gendered experience of economic crisis and specifically of Ireland’s consistent relationship with cycles of boom and bust. Thirteen chapters, which focus on fiction, drama, poetry, women’s life writing, ​and women's cultural contributions, examine these questions. This volume takes the reader on a journey across decades and forms as a means of interrogating the growth of the economic divide between the rich and the poor since the 1980s through the voices of Irish women.

Author : Tina O'Toole
Publisher : Springer
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137349132

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The Irish New Woman by Tina O'Toole Pdf

The Irish New Woman explores the textual and ideological connections between feminist, nationalist and anti-imperialist writing and political activism at the fin de siècle . This is the first study which foregrounds the Irish and New Woman contexts, effecting a paradigm shift in the critical reception of fin de siècle writers and their work.

Author : S. Sheehan,A. Dooley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137076380

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Constructing Gender in Medieval Ireland by S. Sheehan,A. Dooley Pdf

Medieval Irish texts reveal distinctive and unexpected constructions of gender. Constructing Gender in Medieval Ireland illuminates these ideas through its fresh and provocative re-readings of a wide range of texts, including saga, romance, legal texts, Fenian narrative, hagiography, and ecclesiastical verse.

Author : Claire Bracken
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317451341

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Irish Feminist Futures by Claire Bracken Pdf

This book is about the future: Ireland’s future and feminism’s future, approached from a moment that has recently passed. The Celtic Tiger (circa 1995-2008) was a time of extraordinary and radical change, in which Ireland’s economic, demographic, and social structures underwent significant alteration. Conceptions of the future are powerfully prevalent in women’s cultural production in the Tiger era, where it surfaces as a form of temporality that is open to surprise, change, and the unknown. Examining a range of literary and filmic texts, Irish Feminist Futures analyzes how futurity structures representations of the feminine self in women’s cultural practice. Relationally connected and affectively open, these representations of self enable sustained engagements with questions of gender, race, sexuality, and class as they pertain to the material, social, and cultural realities of Celtic Tiger Ireland. This book will appeal to students and scholars of Irish studies, Irish feminist criticism, sociology, cultural studies, literature, women's studies, gender studies, neo-materialist and feminist theories.

Author : E. Stoddard
Publisher : Springer
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137042682

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Positioning Gender and Race in (Post)colonial Plantation Space by E. Stoddard Pdf

Stoddard uses the Anglophone Caribbean and Ireland to examine the complex inflections of women and race as articulated in-between the colonial discursive and material formations of the eighteenth century and those of the (post)colonial twentieth century, as structured by the defined spaces of the colonizers' estates.

Author : Ronald Inglehart,Pippa Norris
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2003-04-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521529506

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Rising Tide by Ronald Inglehart,Pippa Norris Pdf

The twentieth century gave rise to profound changes in traditional sex roles. However, the force of this 'rising tide' has varied among rich and poor societies around the globe, as well as among younger and older generations. Rising Tide sets out to understand how modernization has changed cultural attitudes towards gender equality and to analyze the political consequences of this process. The core argument suggests that women and men's lives have been altered in a two-stage modernization process consisting of (i) the shift from agrarian to industrialized societies and (ii) the move from industrial towards post industrial societies. This book is the first to systematically compare attitudes towards gender equality worldwide, comparing almost 70 nations that run the gamut from rich to poor, agrarian to postindustrial. Rising Tide is essential reading for those interested in understanding issues of comparative politics, public opinion, political behavior, political development, and political sociology.

Author : Renée Fox,Mike Cronin,Brian Ó Conchubhair
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000333152

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Routledge International Handbook of Irish Studies by Renée Fox,Mike Cronin,Brian Ó Conchubhair Pdf

Routledge International Handbook of Irish Studies begins with the reversal in Irish fortunes after the 2008 global economic crash. The chapters included address not only changes in post-Celtic Tiger Ireland but also changes in disciplinary approaches to Irish Studies that the last decade of political, economic, and cultural unrest have stimulated. Since 2008, Irish Studies has been directly and indirectly influenced by the crash and its reverberations through the economy, political landscape, and social framework of Ireland and beyond. Approaching Irish pasts, presents, and futures through interdisciplinary and theoretically capacious lenses, the chapters in this volume reflect the myriad ways Irish Studies has responded to the economic precarity in the Republic, renewed instability in the North, the complex European politics of Brexit, global climate and pandemic crises, and the intense social change in Ireland catalyzed by all of these. Just as Irish society has had to dramatically reconceive its economic and global identity after the crash, Irish Studies has had to shift its theoretical modes and its objects of analysis in order to keep pace with these changes and upheavals. This book captures the dynamic ways the discipline has evolved since 2008, exploring how the age of austerity and renewal has transformed both Ireland and scholarly approaches to understanding Ireland. It will appeal to students and scholars of Irish studies, sociology, cultural studies, history, literature, economics, and political science. Chapter 3, 5 and 15 of this book is available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www.routledge.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Author : Seamus O'Malley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-23
Category : English literature
ISBN : 9780192858412

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Irish Culture and the People by Seamus O'Malley Pdf

This book argues that populism has been a shaping force in Irish literary culture. Populist moments and movements have compelled authors to reject established forms and invent new ones. Sometimes, as in the middle period of W.B. Yeats's work, populism forces a writer into impossible stances, spurring ever greater rhetorical and poetic creativity. At other times, as in the critiques of Anna Parnell or Myles na gCopaleen, authors penetrate the rhetoric fog of populist discourse and expose the hollowness of its claims. Yet in both politics and culture, populism can be a generative force. Daniel O'Connell, and later the Land League, utilized populist discourse to advance Irish political freedom and expand rights. The most powerful works of Lady Gregory and Ernie O'Malley are their portraits of The People that borrows from the populist vocabulary. While we must be critical of populist discourse, we dismiss it at our loss. This study synthesizes existing scholarship on populism to explore how Irish texts have evoked The People--a crucial rhetorical move for populist discourse--and how some writers have critiqued, adopted, and adapted the languages of Irish populisms.

Author : Ellen McWilliams
Publisher : Springer
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137314208

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Women and Exile in Contemporary Irish Fiction by Ellen McWilliams Pdf

Women and Exile in Contemporary Irish Fiction examines how contemporary Irish authors have taken up the history of the Irish woman migrant. It situates these writers' work in relation to larger discourses of exile in the Irish literary tradition and examines how they engage with the complex history of Irish emigration.

Author : Susie Jolly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2002-12-01
Category : Culture
ISBN : 1858644127

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Gender and Cultural Change by Susie Jolly Pdf

Author : Susan Cahill
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441129376

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Irish Literature in the Celtic Tiger Years 1990 to 2008 by Susan Cahill Pdf

When Irish culture and economics underwent rapid changes during the Celtic Tiger Years, Anne Enright, Colum McCann and Éilís Ní Dhuibhne began writing. Now that period of Irish history has closed, this study uncovers how their writing captured that unique historical moment. By showing how Ní Dhuibhne's novels act as considered arguments against attempts to disavow the past, how McCann's protagonists come to terms with their history and how Enright's fiction explores connections and relationships with the female body, Susan Cahill's study pinpoints common concerns for contemporary Irish writers: the relationship between the body, memory and history, between generations, and between past and present. Cahill is able to raise wider questions about Irish culture by looking specifically at how writers engage with the body. In exploring the writers' concern with embodied histories, related questions concerning gender, race, and Irishness are brought to the fore. Such interrogations of corporeality alongside history are imperative, making this a significant contribution to ongoing debates of feminist theory in Irish Studies.