Studies in Cultural Encounters and Exchange, 1714-1960
by
Gerardine Meaney, Mary O'Dowd, Bernadette Whelan
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...