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Author:

Gray, Breda.

Title:

Women and the Irish diaspora / Breda Gray.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Routledge,

Copyright Date:

2004

Description:

224 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Women--Ireland--Identity.
Women--Great Britain--Identity.
Women immigrants.
Women--Ireland--Social conditions.
Women--Social conditions.--Social conditions.
Ireland--Emigration and immigration.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [196]-218) and index.

Contents:

'Women', the diaspora and Irish modernity(ies) -- 'Keeping up appearances' and the contested category 'Irish women' -- 'We haven't really got a set country' - Global mobilities and Irish traveller women -- 'The bright and the beautiful take off ... ' gendered negotiations of staying and going -- 'Are we here or are we there?' - Migrant Irish identity in 1990s London' -- The Irish are not "ethnic" ' - 'whiteness', femininities and migration -- Women, the diaspora and 'the global Irish family' - Feminist contentions.

Series:

Transformations

ISBN:

9780415260022 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0415260027 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780415260015 (cloth : alk. paper)
0415260019 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)52312669

LCCN:

2003010826

Locations:

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

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)