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Author:   N. Giffney ,  M. Shildrick
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   4.827kg
ISBN:  

9781137306975

ISBN 10:   1137306971
Pages:   300
Publication Date:   13 June 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Introduction: Emergent Strands or Theory on Edge?; Margrit Shildrick Women's Studies and the Disciplines; Ailbhe Smyth PART I: POLITICS 1. The Politics of Sexual Difference: The Enduring Influence of the Catholic Church; Ivana Bacik 2. Rethinking the Armagh Women's Dirty Protest; Paula Burns 3. The State, Women, and Irish Abortion Policy, 1983-2010; Sandra McAvoy 4. Irish Migration and Irish Sexuality Scholarship: Queering the Connections; Eithne Luibheid 5. Affecting Trans-feminist Solidarity; Breda Gray 6. Wonderful Documents and Male Begrudgery: Post-Conflict Reconstruction in Northern Ireland; Margaret Ward 7. Pride, Politics, and the Right to Perform: Negotiating Civil Partnership in Ireland; Fintan Walsh PART II: CULTURE 8. Race, Sex, and Nation; Gerardine Meaney 9. Outside-In and the Places In-Between: Feminist Community Higher Education; Aideen Quilty 10. ""Watch your Language"": Speculative Theory and the Poetry of Rita Ann Higgins; Moynagh Sullivan 11. Knowing the Landscape, Navigating the Language: Chinese Women's Experience of Arrival in Ireland; Edith Shillue 12. Enjoying Substance: Psychoanalysis, Literature and Joyce's Writing of Women; Olga Cox Cameron 13. Culture on the Edge: The Postfeminist Challenge; Debbie Ging 14. A Cure for Melancholia? Queer Sons, Dead Mothers, and the Fantasy of Multiculturalism in McCabe and Jordan's Breakfast on Pluto (s); Anne Mulhall 15. Quare Theory; Noreen Giffney Interview with Ailbhe Smyth; Medb Ruane"

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Olga Cox Cameron, St Vincent's University Hospital and Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Noreen Giffney, University College Dublin, Ireland Breda Gray, University of Limerick, Ireland Sandra McAvoy, University College Cork, Ireland Gerardine Meaney, University College Dublin, Ireland Anne Mulhall, University College Dublin, Ireland Aideen Quilty, University College Dublin, Ireland Medb Ruane, University College Dublin, Ireland Margrit Shildrick, Linköping University, Sweden Edith Shillue, independent scholar Ailbhe Smyth, University College Dublin, Ireland Moynagh Sullivan, NUI Maynooth, Ireland Fintan Walsh, Queen Mary College, University of London, UK Margaret Ward, Director of the Women's Resource and Development Agency, Northern Ireland Ivana Bacik, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Eithne Luibhéid, University of Arizona, USA Debbie Ging, Dublin City University, Ireland Lisa Fingleton, artist and filmmaker Paula Burns, civil servant

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