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Title Theory on the edge : Irish studies and the politics of sexual difference / edited by Noreen Giffney and Margrit Shildrick
Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (304 pages) : illustrations
Series Breaking feminist waves
Breaking feminist waves.
Contents Acknowledgments -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction: emergent strands or theory on edge? / Margrit Shildrick -- Politics -- The politics of sexual difference : the enduring influence of the Catholic Church / Ivana Bacik -- Rethinking the Armagh women's dirty protest / Paula Burns -- The state, women and Irish abortion policy, 1983-2010 / Sandra McAvoy -- Irish migration and Irish sexuality scholarship : queering the connections / Eithne LuibhÊid -- Affecting trans-feminist solidarity / Breda Gray -- Wonderful documents and male begrudgery : post-conflict reconstruction in Northern Ireland / Margaret Ward -- Pride, politics, and the right to perform : negotiating civil partnership in Ireland / Fintan Walsh -- Culture -- Race, sex and nation / Gerardine Meaney -- Outside-in and the places in-between : feminist community higher education / Aideen Quilty -- "Watch your language" : speculative theory and the poetry of Rita Ann Higgins / Moynagh Sullivan -- Knowing the landscape : navigating the language : Chinese women's experience of arrival in Ireland / Edith Shillue -- Enjoying substance : psychoanalysis, literature and Joyce's writing of women / Olga Cox Cameron -- Culture on the edge : the postfeminist challenge / Debbie Ging -- A cure for melancholia? : queer sons, dead mothers and the fantasy of multiculturalism in McCabe's and Jordan's breakfast on Pluto(s) / Anne Mulhall -- Quare theory / Noreen Giffney -- Interview with Ailbhe Smyth / Bedb Ruane
Summary "Theory on the Edge" brings together some of the foremost specialists working at the interdisciplinary interface between Irish Studies, feminist theory, queer theory, and gender and sexuality studies in order to trace the contemporary development of feminist thinking and activism in Ireland. The collection opens with a contribution from Ailbhe Smyth, the high-profile academic and public activist, whom many of the contributors acknowledge as a formative influence in their own feminist development. Essays utilize theory rooted in material issues, but always ask 'why' rather than just 'how' to draw interesting new conclusions on the depth and variety of Irish feminism
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Print version record
Subject Feminism -- Ireland
Sex -- Ireland
Gender studies, gender groups -- Ireland. -- 21st century.
Feminism & feminist theory -- Ireland. -- 21st century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Feminism & Feminist Theory.
Society.
Civilization
Feminism
Manners and customs
Sex
Social policy
SUBJECT Ireland -- Social policy
Ireland -- Civilization. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85067971
Ireland -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068048
Subject Ireland
Form Electronic book
Author Giffney, Noreen, editor
Shildrick, Margrit, editor
ISBN 9781137315472
1137315474
9781349455331
1349455334