Women and Irish diaspora identities (eBook, ePUB)

Theories, concepts and new perspectives
Redaktion: MacPherson, D. A. J.; Hickman, Mary

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Compares Irish women across the globe over the last two centuries, setting this research in the context of recent theoretical developments in the study of diaspora

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: David & Charles
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526112408
• Artikelnr.: 48796035

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