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In this compelling work, Rebecca Pelan analyzes religion, region, class, and national and ethnic identity as crucial contexts in shaping feminist consciousness in the two Irelands, and compares the divergence of feminist perspectives to be found North and South of the border.<p>The very different histories of the North and South are reflected in their literature. While women in the Republic of Ireland have tended to write about social issues-sexism, crime, unemployment, and domestic violence-women in Northern Ireland focused on their society's historical tension and primarily nationalist and unionist politics. However, Pelan maintains that feminist ideology has provided contemporary Irish women with an alternate political stance that incorporates gender and nationality/ethnicity and allows them to move beyond the usual binaries of politics, history, and language-Irish and English. In an analysis enriched by a sophisticated but accessible engagement with contemporary feminist and gender theory, Pelan concludes that Irish women's writing, whether at the community or mainstream level-North or South-consistently articulates political issues of direct relevance to the lives of Irish wom

Author

Rebecca Pelan

Publisher

Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780815630593

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Humanities