Rocking the cradle, rocking the system
Subtitle: the cultural representation of femininity in twentieth-century Ireland
By: by Karen Margaret Steele.
Published: 1996
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
Subjects: Feminism and literature -- Ireland -- History -- 20th century.; English literature -- Irish authors -- History and criticism.; Women in literature.; Women in mass media -- Ireland.; Nationalism and literature -- Ireland.; Feminism -- Political aspects -- Ireland.; Women in popular culture -- Ireland.; Sex role in literature.; Mother Ireland (Symbolic character); Nationalism and feminism -- Ireland.
Notes: Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 1996.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-215).

Photocopy. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Dissertation Services, 1997. 21 cm.

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Table of contents: value: The cradle and the crucifix : Irish idealization and denigration of motherhood after 1916; value: Popular memory and the politics of post-colonial biography : the representation of Maud Gonne; value: Symbol of freedom, calamity to the state : the media transformation of Bernadette Devlin McAliskey; value: Refusing the poisoned chalice : the sexual politics of Rita Ann Higgins and Paula Meehan.