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Informationen zum Autor Mary J. Hickman is Professor of Irish Studies at St Mary's University, London Klappentext Bringing together leading authorities on Irish women and migration, this book offers a significant reassessment of women's place in the Irish diaspora.While no longer one of Donald Akenson's 'great unknowns' of Irish migration history, and despite increasing scholarly attention, women's experience remains marginal in many general accounts of migration and diaspora. This book aims to redress this scholarly imbalance by comparing Irish women across the globe, setting this research in the context of recent theoretical developments in the study of diaspora. In particular, it represents an important reassessment of the periodisation of the Irish diaspora, with a number of contributors assessing Irish women's migration during the early and mid-part of the twentieth century. The collection demonstrates the important role played by women in the construction of Irish diasporic identities, assessing Irish women's experience in Britain, Canada, New Zealand and the United States. Moreover, it shifts discussion about women and the Irish diaspora away from the United States, and reasserts the importance of Britain for Irish women's migration. This book develops a conversation between other locations of the Irish diaspora and the dominant story about the USA and, in the process, brings into view the complexity and heterogeneity of Irish diasporan locations and experiences.This interdisciplinary collection, featuring chapters by Breda Gray, Louise Ryan and Bronwen Walter, will appeal to scholars and students of the Irish diaspora and women's migration. Zusammenfassung 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 -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Irish diaspora studies: theories, concepts and new perspectives - D. A. J. MacPherson and Mary J. HickmanPart I: concepts and theories1. Irish women and the diaspora: why they matter - Mary E. Daly2. Thinking through transnational studies, diaspora studies and gender - Breda GrayPart II: Irish women and the diaspora in Britain3. Exploring religion as a bright and blurry boundary: Irish migrants negotiating religious identity in Britain - Louise Ryan4. Irish-Catholic women and modernity in 1930s Liverpool - Charlotte Wildman5. The thermometer and the travel permit: Irish women in the medical profession in Britain during World War II - Jennifer Redmond6. Reflecting on gender and generation differences in celebrating St Patrick's Day in London - Mary J. HickmanPart III: Irish women and the diaspora in the British world7. Placing Irish women within and beyond the British Empire: contexts and comparisons - Bronwen Walter8. Border crossings: being Irish in nineteenth-century Scotland and Canada - S. Karly Kehoe9. Irish Protestant women and diaspora: Orangewomen in Canada, c.1890-1930 - D. A. J. MacPhersonIndex...
