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Product Identifiers

PublisherLiverpool University Press

ISBN-101846318920

ISBN-139781846318924

eBay Product ID (ePID)160153107

Product Key Features

Number of Pages272 Pages

Publication NameReading the Irish Woman : Studies in Cultural Encounters and Exchange, 1714-1960

LanguageEnglish

SubjectWomen, Women's Studies, Europe / Ireland

Publication Year2013

TypeTextbook

AuthorMary O'dowd, Bernadette Whelan, Gerardine Meaney

Subject AreaSocial Science, History

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight12.3 Oz

Item Length9.4 in

Item Width6.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

Dewey Edition23

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal305.409415

Table Of ContentAbbreviations Introduction Enlightenment 1. The Enlightenment, Reading and Irish Women, 1714-1820 2. Educating Women, Patriotism and Public Life, 1770-1845 Emigration 3. The Woman Emigrant Encounters the 'New World', c. 1851-1960 4. Women and the 'American Way', 1900-60 Modernism 5. Women as Producers and Consumers of Popular Culture, 1900-60 6. Women and the Gate Theatre, 1929-60: Sexual and Aesthetic Dissidences Bibliography Index

SynopsisThe 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, fantasies and aspirations which have shaped women's lives in actuality and in imagination and argues that there were many different ways of being a woman. Attention to women's cultural consumption and production shows that one individual may in one day identify with representations of heroines of romantic fiction, patriots, philanthropists, literary ladies, film stars, career women, popular singers, advertising models and foreign missionaries. The processes of cultural consumption, production and exchange provide evidence of women's agency, aspirations and activities within and far beyond the domestic sphere., An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library. 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, fantasies and aspirations which have shaped women's lives in actuality and in imagination and argues that there were many different ways of being a woman. Attention to women's cultural consumption and production shows that one individual may in one day identify with representations of heroines of romantic fiction, patriots, philanthropists, literary ladies, film stars, career women, popular singers, advertising models and foreign missionaries. The processes of cultural consumption, production and exchange provide evidence of women's agency, aspirations and activities within and far beyond the domestic sphere., The first analysis of the Enlightenment and Irish women and the most comprehensive study to date of Irish women and American emigration. Irish women negotiated, selected and at times defied the representations of womanhood presented to them in official and commercially sponsored media.

LC Classification NumberHQ1600.3