| Description |
xvii, 573 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. ; pbk. |
| Bibliog. |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
[PART 1 Women and education] Girls and coeducation in the Republic of Ireland / E. Smyth & D. Hannan -- Gender discourses in school social relations / A. Ryan -- Women in community education and development - liberation or domestication? / B. Connolly. |
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[PART 2 Women and work] Labour market structures and women's employment in the Republic of Ireland / E. Smyth -- Making a difference? Female employment and multinationals in the Republic of Ireland / E. Crowley -- Women in non-traditional employment in Northern Ireland: a marginalised form of femininity / M. Carey -- Women caring nad sharing in Belfast / M. Leonard -- Behind closed doors: homeworkers in Ireland / W. Richards. |
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[PART 3 Women and the welfare system] Gender and the development of the Irish social welfare system / N. Yeates -- Male breadwinner: a case study of gender and social security in the Republic of Ireland / G. Cook & A. McCashin -- Gendered citizenship: the social construction of mothers in Ireland / A. Coakley -- Women and poverty: differences in living standards within households / S. Cantillon. |
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[PART 4 Women and mental health] Women, mental disorder and crime in nineteenth century Ireland / P. Prior -- Madness and mental health in Irish women / A. Cleary. |
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[PART 5 Women and reproduction] Interventions in childbirth: The midwives role / S. Ryan -- Family planning for Irish traveller women: gender, ethnicity and professionalism at work / J. Rigal -- Gender differences in the responses of parents to their daughters non-marital pregnancy / A. Hyde -- Single lone motherhood - reality versus rhetoric / M. Leane & E. Kiely -- A comparative study of maternity entitlements in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland in the 1990s / P. Kennedy. |
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[PART 6 Women and violence] Women, religion and violence in the family / J. McKiernan & M. McWilliams -- Domestic violence: an anlaysis and response from community activists / R. Meade. |
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[PART 7 Rural women and farming] Women in farm families: shedding the past and fashioning the future / P. O'Hara -- Farm wives in Northern Ireland and the gendered division of labour / D. Heenan & D. Birrell -- Gender, power and farming: Northern Ireland, Canada and Norway compared / S. Shortall. |
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[PART 8 Hidden lives] Single women in Ireland: a re-examination of the sociological evidence / A. Byrne -- Lesbian politics and community / G. Moane -- Sober for the sake of the children: The Church, The State and alcohol use amongst women in Ireland / T. Cassidy -- The feminisation of the phone space: women and domestic telephony in Ireland / E. Lohan -- Women, cities and identity: the production and consumption of gendered urban space in Belfast / W. Saunderson -- Out of sight, out of mind? Women with disabilities in Ireland / B. Murray & A. O'Carroll. |
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[PART 9 Women power and politics] (Dis)locating "woman" and women in representations of Irish nationality / B. Gray & L. Ryan -- Women in party politics and local groups: findings from Belfast / E. Rooney -- From revolution to devolution: mapping the contemporary women's movement in Ireland / L. Connolly. |
| Local Note / Price |
25.00 |
| Subject(s) |
Women -- Ireland -- Social conditions.
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Women -- Employment -- Ireland.
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Women -- Ireland -- Economic conditions.
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Ireland -- Social conditions.
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Women -- Employment -- Ireland -- Social aspects.
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| Alt Author |
Byrne, Anne.
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Leonard, Madeleine.
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| ISBN |
1900960036 |
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