Reclaiming gender : transgressive identities in modern Ireland / edited by Marilyn Cohen and Nancy J. Curtin.

Other author Cohen, Marilyn.
Other author Curtin, Nancy J.
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoNew York : St. Martin's Press, 1999.
Description298 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Subjects
Gender identity--Ireland.
Sex role--Ireland.
Identity (Psychology)--Ireland.

Contents Irish stories of weather, time, and gender: Saint Brigid / Angela Bourke -- "A nation of abortive men": gendered citizenship and early Irish republicanism / Nancy J. Curtin -- Women troubles, queer troubles: gender, sexuality, and the politics of selfhood in the construction of the Northern Irish state / Kathryn Conrad -- Familist ideology and difficult identities: "never-married" women in contemporary Irish society / Anne Byrne -- The ideal man: Irish masculinity and the home, 1880-1914 / Joanna Bourke -- Losing it all: the unmanned Irish landlord / Vera Kreilkamp -- Putting masculinity to work on a Northern Ireland shopfloor / William F. Kelleher -- Asenath Nicholson's new domestic economy / Gordon Bigelow -- Spinners and spinning in the political economy of pre-famine Ireland: evidence from County Cavan / June Gray -- "A girdle around the globe": spinning transnational bonds between Gilford, Ireland, and Greenwich, New York, 1880-1920 / Marilyn Cohen -- Negotiating patriarchy: Irish women and the landlord / Ruth-Ann M. Harris -- The land war in the Irish northwest: agitation and its unintended consequences / Joan Vincent -- Between mater and matter: radical novels by republican women / Heather Zwicker -- Racializing the Irish in England: gender, class, and ethnicity / Mary J. Hickman and Bronwen Walter.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 99023512
ISBN0312213379 (cloth)