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Title:

Performing feminisms in contemporary Ireland / edited by Lisa Fitzpatrick.

Publisher:

Carysfort Press,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

viii, 276 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Feminism--Ireland.
Feminism--Northern Ireland.
Women--Ireland--Social conditions.
Women--Northern Ireland--Social conditions.
Feminism and theater--Ireland.
Feminism and theater--Northern Ireland.

Other Authors:

Fitzpatrick, Lisa (Elizabeth Anne), editor of compilation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction : Performing feminisms / Lisa Fitzpatrick -- Women in the Dublin Theatre Festival 2011 / Sara Keating -- Eating tiny cakes in the dark : Maeve Higgins and the politics of self deprecation / Susanne Colleary -- Marina Carr - writing as a feminist act / Brenda Donohue -- Damned if you do ; damned if you don't : competing feminisms in Irish theatre / Charlotte Headrick & John Countryman -- Myth and gender in Irish drama / Tom Maguire & Carole-Anne Upton -- Gendering the nation in iconography and historiography / S.E. Wilmer & Mary Caulfield -- 'Midwives to creativity' : Irish women and public(ation), 1975-1996 / Megan Buckley & Julia Walther -- 'Judgemental oul' hoors' : Catholicism in the work of Marian Keyes / Lisa McGonigle -- The mother-daughter relationship in contemporary plays by women / M©Łria Kurdi -- An exploration of the intergenerational influences on working mothers / Jacinta Byrne-Doran -- Rape, murder and mayhem : women writing violence / Lisa Fitzpatrick -- Feminism, gender roles, and sexualities in contemporary productions of Oscar Wilde / Aideen Kerr -- 'Le monkey homosexuel' : the role of Ruth McCarthy's queerzines in Northern Ireland in the 1990s and 2000s / Alyson Campbell & Suzanne Patman -- Protests, parades and marches : activism and extending abortion legislation to Northern Ireland / Fiona Bloomer.

Summary:

"This collection of fourteen new essays by scholars of literature, theatre, historiography, psychology and political science explores aspects of feminism in Ireland four decades after the founding of the Irish Women's Liberation Movement. This collection speaks to national issues that continue to concern women around the globe."--Back cover.

ISBN:

1904505627
9781904505624

OCLC:

(OCoLC)843857051

LCCN:

2013370875

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)