Irish women and nationalism
Subtitle: soldiers, new women, and wicked hags
By: editors, Louise Ryan, Margaret Ward.
Contributors: Ryan, Louise.; Ward, Margaret, 1950-
Publisher: Irish Academic Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Dublin; Portland, OR
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
Subjects: Women in politics -- Ireland; Women in politics -- Ireland -- History; Women political activists -- Ireland -- History; Nationalism -- Ireland; Ireland -- Politics and government
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [202]-227) and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Sinéad McCoole; title: 1. Introduction / Louise Ryan and Margaret Wood; title: 2. Testimonies to history : reassessing women's involvement in the 1641 rising / Andrea Knox; title: 3. Revolution in Ireland, evolution in women's rights : Irish women in 1798 and 1848 / Jan Cannavan; title: 4. 'In the line of fire': representations of women and war (1919-1923) through the writings of republican men / Louise Ryan; title: 5. Constance Markievicz and the politics of memory / Karen Steele; title: 6. Representations and attitudes of republican women in the novels of Annie M.P. Smithson (1873-1948) and Rosamond Jacob (1888-1960) / Danae O'Regan; title: 7. 'And behind him a wicked hag did stalk': from maiden to mother, Ireland as woman through the male psyche / Jayne Steel; title: 8. 'We had to be stronger': the political imprisonment of women in Northern Ireland, 1972-1999 / Mary Corcoran; title: 9. Female combatants, paramilitary prisoners and the development of feminism in the republican movement / Rhiannon Talbot; title: 10. Narrataives of political activism from women in West Belfast / Claire Hackett; title: 11. The emergence of a gender consciousness : women and community work in West Belfast / Callie Persic; title: 12. Times of transition : republican women, feminism and political representation / Margaret Ward; title: Notes; title: Notes on contributors; title: Index.