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Irish women and nationalism, soldiers, new women, and wicked hags, editors, Louise Ryan, Margaret Ward

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-227) and index

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Irish women and nationalism

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editors, Louise Ryan, Margaret Ward

Gender studies

soldiers, new women, and wicked hags

Foreword / Sinéad McCoole -- 1. Introduction / Louise Ryan and Margaret Wood -- 2. Testimonies to history : reassessing women's involvement in the 1641 rising / Andrea Knox -- 3. Revolution in Ireland, evolution in women's rights : Irish women in 1798 and 1848 / Jan Cannavan -- 4. 'In the line of fire': representations of women and war (1919-1923) through the writings of republican men / Louise Ryan -- 5. Constance Markievicz and the politics of memory / Karen Steele -- 6. Representations and attitudes of republican women in the novels of Annie M.P. Smithson (1873-1948) and Rosamond Jacob (1888-1960) / Danae O'Regan -- 7. 'And behind him a wicked hag did stalk': from maiden to mother, Ireland as woman through the male psyche / Jayne Steel -- 8. 'We had to be stronger': the political imprisonment of women in Northern Ireland, 1972-1999 / Mary Corcoran -- 9. Female combatants, paramilitary prisoners and the development of feminism in the republican movement / Rhiannon Talbot -- 10. Narratives of political activism from women in West Belfast / Claire Hackett -- 11. The emergence of a gender consciousness : women and community work in West Belfast / Callie Persic -- 12. Times of transition : republican women, feminism and political representation / Margaret Ward -- Notes -- Notes on contributors -- Index