Locked in the Family Cell
Subtitle: Gender, Sexuality, and Political
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press; University of Wisconsin Press/Terrace Books
Published: May 15, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780299196509
Subjects: Cultural studies; Gender Studies; POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; History; Sociology; History: World; Gay Studies; Sociology - Marriage & Family; History / Ireland; Europe - Ireland; Family; Human reproduction; Ireland; Political aspects; Sexual orientation; Social aspects
Description: "Locked in the Family Cell is the first book on Ireland to provide a sustained and interdisciplinary analysis of gender, sexuality, nationalism, the public and private spheres, and the relationship between these categories of analysis and action. Kathryn Conrad examines the writers and activists who are resistant to simplistic nationalist constructions of Ireland and its subjects. She exposes the assumptions and the effects of national discourses in Ireland and their reliance on a limited and limiting vision of the family: the heterosexual family cell." "By actively situating theoretical readings and concerns in practice. Conrad follows the lead of scholars such as Lauren Berlant. Gloria Anzaldua, Ailbhe Smyth, and others who have encouraged dialogue not only among scholars in different academic disciplines but between scholars and activists. In doing so she provides not only critique of interest to scholars in a variety of fields but also a productive political intervention."--BOOK JACKET.