Gender and Sexuality in Ireland
In: Irish Perspectives Ser.
Cover -- Book Title -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Chapter One 'History women and history men': The politics of women's history -- Chapter Two Marriage in medieval Ireland -- Chapter Three Career wives or wicked stepmothers? Marriage and divorce in the Pale -- Chapter Four Women and patriotism in eighteenth-century Ireland -- Chapter Five 'Better without the ladies': The Royal Irish Academy and the admission of women members -- Chapter Six 'Women of the pave': Prostitution in Ireland -- Chapter Seven A sexual revolution in the west of Ireland? Workhouses and illegitimacy in post-Famine Ireland -- Chapter Eight 'Most vicious and refractory girls': The reformatories at Ballinasloe and Monaghan -- Chapter Nine Casement's 'Black diaries': Closed books reopened -- Chapter Ten Roger Casement and the history question -- Chapter Eleven Dancing, depravity and all that jazz: The Public Dance Halls Act of 1935 -- Chapter Twelve Internal tamponage, hockey parturition and mixed athletics -- Chapter Thirteen 'No worse and no better: Irishwomen and backstreet abortions -- Chapter Fourteen 'Sisters sentenced to death: Infanticide in independent Ireland -- Chapter Fifteen 'Unrelenting deference'? Official resistance to Catholic moral panic in the mid-twentieth century -- Chapter Sixteen Ask Angela: Reappraising the Irish 'sexual repression' narrative -- Chapter Seventeen 'Spreading VD all over Connacht': Reproductive rights and wrongs in 1970s Galway -- Chapter Eighteen Recollections of the Irish women's liberation movement -- Chapter Nineteen Breaking the silence on abortion: The 1983 referendum campaign -- Further reading -- Back Cover.