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The Salley Gardens
Women, Sex, and Motherhood in Ireland
By the early 2000s, women in Ireland were arguably freer than any past generation to shape their sexual lives amidst the social freedoms of a globalised society. The Salley Gardens presents reflections from seventy-three heterosexual young women on growing up, forming sexual relationships and some becoming mothers in the last years of the «Celtic Tiger». The authors explore their hope and despair about what it means to be a woman, to use their agency, within the inescapable tensions of newly wealthy Ireland. Their efforts to build their sexual lives are complex and the significant problems they encountered remain unresolved.
Women’s search for agency is woven into our complex history and continues to reverberate. The bewildering juxtapositions young women faced fifteen years ago have intensified in the present. Then and now, we face conflicts with social expectations of our lives as sexual women, caring women, partners, wives, and mothers.
Turning our older history in Ireland towards an exuberant resistance enables us to illuminate the limitations of the female identities imposed by contemporary Ireland. The Salley Gardens helps us rethink what we mean by agency and resistance, revaluing women’s actions as we endeavour to value our own lives.
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Veröffentlichung: | 13.12.2021 |
Höhe/Breite/Gewicht | H 22,9 cm / B 15,2 cm / 492 g |
Seiten | 328 |
Art des Mediums | Buch |
Preis DE | EUR 34.05 |
Preis AT | EUR 35.00 |
Auflage | 1. Auflage |
Reihe | Reimagining Ireland 106 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-800-79417-7 |
ISBN-10 | 1800794177 |
Über den Autor
Natalie Wynn is a Research Associate of the Herzog Centre for Jewish and Near Eastern Religions and Culture, Trinity College Dublin. She has contributed to books and journals on various aspects of Irish Jewish history, historiography, identity and experience, and is co-editor of the essay collections Reimagining the Jews of Ireland: Historiography, Identity and Representation, with Zuleika Rodgers (2023); The Limerick Boycott in Context, with Seán William Gannon (forthcoming, 2024); and Migration in Jewish Imagination and Experience, with Mara W. Cohen Ioannides (forthcoming, 2024).
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