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Reading the Irish woman, studies in cultural encounter and exchange, 1714-1960, Gerardine Meaney, Mary O'Dowd and Bernadette Whelan

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Includes bibliographical references (pages [221]-255) and index

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non fiction

Reading the Irish woman

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Gerardine Meaney, Mary O'Dowd and Bernadette Whelan

Reappraisals in Irish history, [2]

studies in cultural encounter and exchange, 1714-1960

The theme of this book is cultural encounter and exchange in Irish women's lives. Using three case studies: the Enlightenment, emigration and modernism, it analyses reading and popular and consumer culture as sites of negotiation of gender roles. It traces how the circulation of ideas, fantasies and aspirations which have shaped women's lives in actuality and in imagination and argues that there were many different ways of being a woman. Attention to women's cultural consumption and production shows that one individual may in one day identify with representations of heroines of romantic fiction, patriots, philanthropists, literary ladies, film stars, career women, popular singers, advertising models and foreign missionaries. The processes of cultural consumption, production and exchange provide evidence of women's agency, aspirations and activities within and far beyond the domestic sphere --, Provided by Publisher

Abbreviations Introduction Enlightenment 1. The Enlightenment, Reading and Irish Women, 1714-1820 2. Educating Women, Patriotism and Public Life, 1770-1845 Emigration 3. The Woman Emigrant Encounters the 'New World', c. 1851-1960 4. Women and the 'American Way', 1900-60 Modernism 5. Women as Producers and Consumers of Popular Culture, 1900-60 6. Women and the Gate Theatre, 1929-60: Sexual and Aesthetic Dissidences Bibliography Index