Reclaiming Gender
Subtitle: Transgressive Identities in Modern Ireland
Contributors: Marilyn Cohen (Editor); Nancy J. Curtin (Editor)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: December 10, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780312213374
Subjects: Social Science / Gender Studies; General; Gender Psychology; Sex Roles (Sociological Aspects); Psychology; Gender Studies; Gender identity; Identity (Psychology); Ireland; Sex role; Sociology
Description: "Reclaiming Gender is a pioneering work that advances Irish studies by stimulating interdisciplinary dialogue between general Irish studies and gender studies. The famine, Republicanism, queer studies, and emigration to England are all examined through a gendered lens, as gender is the crucial analytical thread that ties local action to the overall development of the world economy.

By main-streaming gender into the state, political economy, culture, and the diaspora, this volume provides a feminist revision of Irish studies that challenges masculinized modes of cognition to rethink reality in gendered terms. The book provides a helpful introduction to major theoretical concerns as well as a fascinating revision of the modern Irish and diasporic experience."--BOOK JACKET.