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Title:

Theory on the edge : Irish studies and the politics of sexual difference / edited by Noreen Giffney and Margrit Shildrick.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

x, 289 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Feminism--Ireland.
Sex--Ireland.
Ireland--Social policy.
Ireland--Civilization.
Ireland--Social life and customs.

Other Authors:

Giffney, Noreen.
Shildrick, Margrit.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Acknowledgments -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction: emergent strands or theory on edge? / Margrit Shildrick -- Politics -- The politics of sexual difference : the enduring influence of the Catholic Church / Ivana Bacik -- Rethinking the Armagh women's dirty protest / Paula Burns -- The state, women and Irish abortion policy, 1983-2010 / Sandra McAvoy -- Irish migration and Irish sexuality scholarship : queering the connections / Eithne Luibh©♭id -- Affecting trans-feminist solidarity / Breda Gray -- Wonderful documents and male begrudgery : post-conflict reconstruction in Northern Ireland / Margaret Ward -- Pride, politics, and the right to perform : negotiating civil partnership in Ireland / Fintan Walsh -- Culture -- Race, sex and nation / Gerardine Meaney -- Outside-in and the places in-between : feminist community higher education / Aideen Quilty -- "Watch your language" : speculative theory and the poetry of Rita Ann Higgins / Moynagh Sullivan -- Knowing the landscape : navigating the language : Chinese women's experience of arrival in Ireland / Edith Shillue -- Enjoying substance : psychoanalysis, literature and Joyce's writing of women / Olga Cox Cameron -- Culture on the edge : the postfeminist challenge / Debbie Ging -- A cure for melancholia? : queer sons, dead mothers and the fantasy of multiculturalism in McCabe's and Jordan's breakfast on Pluto(s) / Anne Mulhall -- Quare theory / Noreen Giffney -- Interview with Ailbhe Smyth / Bedb Ruane.

Series:

Breaking feminist waves

ISBN:

1137306971 (alk. paper)
9781137306975 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)825106430

LCCN:

2012048225

Locations:

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