Reading the Irish woman : studies in cultural encounter and exchange, 1714-1960

Reading the Irish woman studies in cultural encounter and exchange, 1714-1960

The theme of this book is cultural encounter and exchange in Irish women's lives. Using three case studies: the Enlightenment, emigration and modernism, it analyses reading and popular and consumer culture as sites of negotiation of gender roles. It traces how the circulation of ideas, fantasie...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Meaney, Gerardine, 1962- author (author), O'Dowd, Mary, author, Whelan, Bernadette, author
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press 2013.
Edition:1st ed
Series:Reappraisals in Irish history.
Subjects:
Women > Ireland > History.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009419801306719
Table of Contents:
  • The Enlightenment and reading, 1714-1820
  • Educating women, patriotism and public life, 1770-1845
  • The emigrant encounters the 'new world', c.1851-1960
  • Women and the 'American way', 1900-60
  • Producers and consumers of popular culture, 1900-60
  • Sexual and aesthetic dissidences : women and the Gate Theatre, 1929-60.

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