Product Description: In her eagerly-awaited new book, Alice salutes the women whose energy and generosity made such a valuable contribution to all our lives.""This book is a celebration of the often forgotten `ordinary' women who gave so much to our society.""-Alice Taylor.

Product Description: A collection of pioneering essays by one of the leading researchers in Irish womens history, this is a sister collection to Margaret Mac Curtains Ariadnes Thread: Writing Women into Irish History.

Product Description: A particular dark triumph of modern nationalism has been its ability to persuade citizens to sacrifice their lives for a political vision forged by emotional ties to a common identity. Both men and women can respond to nationalistic calls to fight that portray muscular warriors defending their nation against an easily recognizable enemy...read more

Product Description: This book offers a collection of Margaret Mac Curtain's pioneering essays in the field of Irish women's history. Subjects range from marriage and education in early modern Ireland to female spirituality and representations in art and literature.

Product Description: This collection of articles poses the question: What can gender history add to the traditional narrative of Irish history? How can it help us to understand the ways in which power operated in and flowed through Irish society? It is premised on the assumption that men and women are actors in the creation of their society, influenced by the ideology of the period, but also challenging and resisting the assumptions and beliefs of their era...read more

Product Description: The first general survey of the history of women in early modern Ireland.  Based on an impressive range of source material, it presents the results of original research into women’s lives and experiences in Ireland from 1500 to 1800...read more

Product Description: This landmark book on feminist political theology is back in print. Focusing on Ireland, it provides a startling account of the decline of matriarchal power in Western civilization and analyzes its implications for today's women and today's Catholic Church...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: We Are But Women sets the history of Irish women in the context of the broad sweep of Irish history, dealing even-handedly with the diverse traditions of unionism and nationalism. Through an examination of exemplar individuals and organisations, the book traces the growth of Irish awareness of such `women's issues' as emancipation, divorce and abortion...read more

Product Description: The Irish Women's History Reader is an exciting collection of essays revealing the tremendous diversity of women's experiences in Ireland's past. For the first time this unique book draws together key articles published in the fields of Irish women's history and women's studies over the past two decades, including contributions from Ireland, North and South, England, USA, Canada and Australia...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This collection by twelve Irish women writers, thinkers and activists contains the following: 'Pornography: The New Terrorism' by Clodagh Corcoran; 'A Kind of Scar: The Woman Poet in a National Tradition' by Eavan Boland; 'Has The Red Flag Fallen? The Fate of Socialisms in the 1990s' by Helena Sheehan; 'The Politics of Seduction' by Trudy Hayes; 'Ancient Wars: Sex and Sexuality' by Ethna Viney; 'The Right to Choose: Questions of Feminist Morality' by Ruth Riddick; 'Ireland Between the First and Third World' by Carol Coulter; 'From Cathleen to Anorexia: The Breakdown of Ireland's' by Edna Longley; 'Sex and Nation: Women in Irish Culture and Politics' by Gerardine Meaney; 'Glass Slippers and Tough Bargains: Women, Men and Power' by Maureen Gaffney; 'The Missing Sex: Putting Women into Irish History' by Margaret Ward; 'Repulsing Racism: Reflections on Racism and the Irish' by Gretchen Fitzgerald...read more

Product Description: Assessing the role of women in Ireland between 1500 and 1800 - a period of considerable social and economic change, this volume examines Irish women in their domestic, political and religious activities. It looks at prejudices against women in the medical texts of the period; women's experience of education; the impact upon women of Gaelic law; women and childbirth; and the different opportunities offered by Catholicism and Protestantism, amongst other subjects...read more

Product Description: Book by Mac Curtain, Margaret, O Corrain, Donncha