Irish Women's History

by Diane Urquhart (Editor), Alan Hayes (Editor)

Overview

In 13 studies considering women in both the north and south of Ireland and Irish women living in Britain, historians from throughout the former British empire highlight the diversity of methodologies that are being used by historians to recreate women's past lives. Their topics include gender, authority, and worship in early Ireland; class, ethnicity, and religion in the Crimean War; Enniscorthy Lunatic Asylum 1916-25; and the decline of breast feeding in 20th-century Ireland. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780716527022
Publisher:	Irish Academic Press
Publication date:	01/01/2004
Series:	Women in Irish History Series
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	65.00(w) x 95.00(h) x 1.00(d)

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgements	vii
	Foreword	ix
	Introduction	xi
1	'Hail Brigit!': Gender, Authority and Worship in Early Ireland	1
2	Necessary Collaborations: Religious Women and Lay Communities in Medieval Ireland, c. 1200-1540	15
3	'Mothers in Israel': Women, Family and Community in Early Irish Methodism	29
4	Peeresses, Patronage and Power: The Politics of Ladies Frances Anne, Theresa and Edith Londonderry, 1800-1959	43
5	Nurses, Nuns and Ladies: A Study of Class, Ethnicity and Religion in the Crimean War	60
6	Isabella Tod and Liberal Unionism in Ulster, 1886-96	72
7	New Battlegrounds: The Development of the Salvation Army in Ireland in the Nineteenth Century	88
8	'Let the Girls Come Forth': The Early Feminist Ideology of the Irish Women Workers' Union	103
9	Hearths, Bodies and Minds: Gender Ideology and Women's Committal to Enniscorthy Lunatic Asylum, 1916-25	115
10	The Press, Police and Prosecution: Perspectives on Infanticide in the 1920s	137
11	Irish Women's Emigration to England, 1922-60: The Lengthening of Family Ties	152
12	Women Workers in Dublin and Belfast during the Second World War	168
13	The Decline of Breast-Feeding in Twentieth-Century Ireland	187
	Afterword: A Feminine Occupation for a Female Audience?: A Future for Irish Women's History	199
	Notes	203
	Notes on Contributors	231
	Index	233