Women and Irish Diaspora Identities CB

Theories, Concepts and New Perspectives
Herausgeber: MacPherson, D a J; Hickman, Mary

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Produktbeschreibung

Bringing together leading authorities on Irish women and migration, this book offers a significant reassessment of women's place in the Irish diaspora. While no longer one of Donald Akenson's 'great unknowns' of Irish migration history, and despite increasing scholarly attention, women's experience remains marginal in many general accounts of migration and diaspora. This book aims to redress this scholarly imbalance by comparing Irish women across the globe, setting this research in the context of recent theoretical developments in the study of diaspora. In particular, it represents an important reassessment of the periodisation of the Irish diaspora, with a number of contributors assessing Irish women's migration during the early and mid-part of the twentieth century. The collection demonstrates the important role played by women in the construction of Irish diasporic identities, assessing Irish women's experience in Britain, Canada, New Zealand and the United States. Moreover, it shifts discussion about women and the Irish diaspora away from the United States, and reasserts the importance of Britain for Irish women's migration. This book develops a conversation between other locations of the Irish diaspora and the dominant story about the USA and, in the process, brings into view the complexity and heterogeneity of Irish diasporan locations and experiences. This interdisciplinary collection, featuring chapters by Breda Gray, Louise Ryan and Bronwen Walter, will appeal to scholars and students of the Irish diaspora and women's migration.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lund University Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780719089473
• ISBN-10: 0719089476
• Artikelnr.: 41368886

Autorenporträt

D. A. J. MacPherson is Lecturer in History at The Centre for History, University of the Highlands and Islands Mary J. Hickman is Professor of Irish Studies at St Mary's University, London

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Irish diaspora studies: theories, concepts and new
perspectives - D. A. J. MacPherson and Mary J. Hickman Part I: concepts and
theories 1. Irish women and the diaspora: why they matter - Mary E. Daly 2.
Thinking through transnational studies, diaspora studies and gender - Breda
Gray Part II: Irish women and the diaspora in Britain 3. Exploring religion
as a bright and blurry boundary: Irish migrants negotiating religious
identity in Britain - Louise Ryan 4. Irish-Catholic women and modernity in
1930s Liverpool - Charlotte Wildman 5. The thermometer and the travel
permit: Irish women in the medical profession in Britain during World War
II - Jennifer Redmond 6. Reflecting on gender and generation differences in
celebrating St Patrick's Day in London - Mary J. Hickman Part III: Irish
women and the diaspora in the British world 7. Placing Irish women within
and beyond the British Empire: contexts and comparisons - Bronwen Walter 8.
Border crossings: being Irish in nineteenth-century Scotland and Canada -
S. Karly Kehoe 9. Irish Protestant women and diaspora: Orangewomen in
Canada, c.1890-1930 - D. A. J. MacPherson Index