Perceptions Of Femininity In Early Irish Society

Author : Helen Oxenham
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1783271167
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Perceptions of Femininity in Early Irish Society written by Helen Oxenham and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2016 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of how the feminine was viewed in early medieval Ireland, through a careful study of a range of texts.

Author : Katharine Simms
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fragility of Her Sex? written by Katharine Simms and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume of essays, which includes papers first given at a conference of the Irish Association for Research in Women's History, represents a fresh approach to the discussion of the position of women in Ireland in the Middle Ages: it attempts to set the experience of Irish women into a wider, European context. This comparative approach makes it possible to shake off the image of isolation and idiosyncrasy that has for too long clung to many aspects of medieval Irish society, and especially to the subjects of women and marriage." "A secondary theme of the volume is the extent to which women, in Ireland and outside, were able to take the initiative and make their interests and wishes count in the societies in which they lived. A number of the essays discuss the sources for the history of women and use them in new ways to recover what is possible of the lives and experiences of medieval women." "A combination of essays by established academics and younger scholars, covering literary topics as well as political, social and legal conditions as they affected women, the volume presents the results of recent research and represents very much the 'cutting edge' of scholarly work on medieval women, especially, but not exclusively, in Ireland."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Lisa M. Bitel
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801485442
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Land of Women written by Lisa M. Bitel and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book disperses the shadows in an obscure but important landscape. Lisa Bitel addresses both the history of women in early Ireland and the history of myth, legend, and superstition which surrounded them. It is a powerful and exact book and an invaluable addition to our expanding sense of Ireland through the eyes of Irish women."--Eavan Boland, author of In a Time of Violence: Poems"It is refreshing to read in a book by a woman on medieval women that not all clerics hated women and that not all men were oversexed villains consciously bent on exploiting women. [Bitel] challenges not only the medieval Irish male construct of female behavior, but she is also courageous enough to question constructs of medieval women invented by modern Irish medieval historians."--Times Higher Education Supplement

Author : Elaine Farrell
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526102242
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A most diabolical deed' written by Elaine Farrell and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the phenomenon of infanticide in Ireland from 1850 to 1900, examining a sample of 4,645 individual cases of infant murder, attempted infanticide and concealment of birth. Evidence for this study has been gleaned from a variety of sources, including court documents, coroners’ records, prison files, parliamentary papers, and newspapers. Through these sources, many of which are rarely used by scholars, attitudes towards the crime, the women accused of the offence, and the victim, are revealed. Although infant murder was a capital offence during this period, none of the women found guilty of the crime were executed, suggesting a degree of sympathy and understanding towards the accused. Infanticide cases also allude to complex dynamics and tensions between employers and servants, parents and pregnant daughters, judges and defendants, and prison authorities and inmates. This book highlights much about the lived realities of nineteenth-century Ireland.

Author : Mary O'Dowd
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131787725X
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Women in Ireland, 1500-1800 written by Mary O'Dowd and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-17 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first general survey of the history of women in early modern Ireland. Based on an impressive range of source material, it presents the results of original research into women’s lives and experiences in Ireland from 1500 to 1800. This was a time of considerable change in Ireland as English colonisation, religious reform and urbanisation transformed society on the island. Gaelic society based on dynastic lordships and Brehon Law gave way to an anglicised and centralised form of government and an English legal system.

Author : Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Irish Women written by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Christine Meek
Publisher : Four Courts PressLtd
ISBN 13 : 9781851822065
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fragility of Her Sex? written by Christine Meek and published by Four Courts PressLtd. This book was released on 1996 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comparative approach makes it possible to shake off the image of isolation and idiosyncrasy that has for too long clung to many aspects of medieval Irish society, and especially to the subjects of women and marriage.

Author : Jennifer Redmond
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000145085
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Irish Women in the First World War Era written by Jennifer Redmond and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-21 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first collection of essays to focus exclusively on Irish women’s experiences in the First World War period, 1914-18, across the island of Ireland, contextualising the wartime realities of women’s lives in a changing political landscape. The essays consider experiences ranging from the everyday realities of poverty and deprivation, to the contributions made to the war effort by women through philanthropy and by working directly with refugees. Gendered norms and assumptions about women’s behaviour are critically analysed, from the rhetoric surrounding ‘separation women’ and their use of alcohol, to the navigation of public spaces and the attempts to deter women from perceived immoral behaviour. Political life is also examined by leading scholars in the field, including accounts from women on both sides of the ‘Irish question’ and the impact the war had on their activism and ambitions. Finally, new light is shed on the experiences of women working in munitions factories around Ireland and the complexity of this work in the Irish context is explored. Throughout, it is asserted that while there were many commonalities in women’s experiences throughout the British and Irish Isles at this time, the particular political context of Ireland added a different, and in many respects an unexamined, dimension. This book was originally published as a special issue of Women’s History Review.

Author : Ciarán McCabe
Publisher : Reappraisals in Irish History
ISBN 13 : 1786941570
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Begging, Charity and Religion in Pre-Famine Ireland written by Ciarán McCabe and published by Reappraisals in Irish History. This book was released on 2018-10-29 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beggars and begging were ubiquitous features of pre-Famine Irish society, yet have gone largely unexamined by historians. This book explores at length for the first time the complex cultures of mendicancy, as well as how wider societal perceptions of and responses to begging were framed by social class, gender and religion. The study breaks new ground in exploring the challenges inherent in defining and measuring begging and alms-giving in pre-Famine Ireland, as well as the disparate ways in which mendicants were perceived by contemporaries. A discussion of the evolving role of parish vestries in the life of pre-Famine communities facilitates an examination of corporate responses to beggary, while a comprehensive analysis of the mendicity society movement, which flourished throughout Ireland in the three decades following 1815, highlights the significance of charitable societies and associational culture in responding to the perceived threat of mendicancy. The instance of the mendicity societies illustrates the extent to which Irish commentators and social reformers were influenced by prevailing theories and practices in the transatlantic world regarding the management of the poor and deviant. Drawing on a wide range of sources previously unused for the study of poverty and welfare, this book makes an important contribution to modern Irish social and ecclesiastical history. An Open Access edition of this work is available on the OAPEN Library.

Author : Margaret MacCurtain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women in Early Modern Ireland written by Margaret MacCurtain and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Onderwerpen: eigendom 16e eeuw; piraterij met Gráinne O'Mally en Anne Bonny; oorlog 1640; literatuur 1500-1800; onderwijs; reformatie; abortus; gek zijn 1600-1850; bakers; huisindustrie.