Gerardine Meaney: 3 books
Gender, Ireland and Cultural Change
Race, Sex and Nation
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
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...
(Un)like Subjects
Women, Theory, Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
What is the relationship between feminist critical theory and literature?
This book deals with the relationship between women and writing, mothers and daughters, the maternal and history. It addresses the questions about language, writing and the relations between women which have preoccupied...
Reading the Irish Woman
Studies in Cultural Encounters and Exchange, 1714-1960
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
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...