Women and the Irish diaspora
By: Breda Gray.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Transformations
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: Women -- Ireland -- Identity.; Women -- Great Britain -- Identity.; Women immigrants.; Women -- Ireland -- Social conditions.; Women -- Great Britain -- Social conditions.; Ireland -- Emigration and immigration.
Table of contents: title: 'Women', the diaspora and Irish modernity(ies); title: 'Keeping up appearances' and the contested category 'Irish women'; title: 'We haven't really got a set country' - Global mobilities and Irish traveller women; title: 'The bright and the beautiful take off...' gendered negotiations of staying and going; title: 'Are we here or are we there?' - Migrant Irish identity in 1990s London'; title: The Irish are not "ethnic" ' - 'whiteness', femininities and migration; title: Women, the diaspora and 'the global Irish family' - Feminist contentions.