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Women and Irish diaspora identities : Theories, concepts and new perspectives /

Bringing together leading authorities on Irish women and migration, this book offers a significant reassessment of the place of women in the Irish diaspora. It compares Irish women across the globe over the last two centuries, setting this research in the context of recent theoretical developments i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hickman, Mary J. (Editor ), MacPherson, D. A. J., 1974- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York [New York] : Manchester University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Irish diaspora studies and women : theories, concepts and new perspectives / D.A.J. MacPherson and Mary J. Hickman
  • part I. Concepts and theories
  • Irish women and the diaspora : why they matter / Mary E. Daly
  • Thinking through transnational studies, diaspora studies and gender / Breda Gray
  • part II. Irish women and the diaspora in Britain
  • Exploring religion as a bright and blurry boundary : Irish migrants negotiating religious identity in Britain / Louise Ryan
  • Irish-Catholic women and modernity in 1930s Liverpool / Charlotte Wildman
  • The thermometer and the travel permit : Irish women in the medical profession in Britain during World War Two / Jennifer Redmond
  • Reflecting on gender, generation and ethnicity in celebrating St Patrick's Day in London / Mary J. Hickman
  • part III. Irish women and the diaspora in the British world
  • Placing Irish women within and beyond the British Empire : contexts and comparisons / Bronwen Walter
  • Border crossings : being Irish in nineteenth-century Scotland and Canada / S. Karly Kehoe
  • Irish Protestant women and diaspora : Orangewomen in Canada, c. 1890-1930 / D.A.J. MacPherson.