Female Revolutionaries and Political Violence in India and Ireland 1919-1939
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O'Halpin, Eunan, Female Revolutionaries and Political Violence in India and Ireland 1919-1939. In Atwal, J, Breathnach, C and Buckley, S.A. (Eds.) Gender and History: Ireland 1852-1922, London, Routledge, 2023, 265 - 281Abstract:
Post-Famine Irish family constructs were complex and hinged to a great degree on
social class and household means. The term ‘family’ is hard to define since it may
be used to describe a range of relationships, from related co-residents, to dispersed
relatives, to a wider kin group. The concept of ‘family’ is temporally, culturally and
socially informed, so it is important to understand what this signified in Ireland
during the period of study, being cognisant that this might be quite different from
Irish families in other eras, as well as non-Irish families in this or any other period.
The ‘normative family’ in Ireland 1850–1922 was founded in marriage and con-
sisted of either a nuclear family (a heterosexual couple with one or more children)
or the ‘stem’ family, a form of extended family in which three generations (grand-
parents, children and grandchildren) co-habited. Though such units were viewed as
the moral and cultural ideal, the reality was that Irish families encompassed a much
broader range of typologies.
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Author: O'Halpin, Eunan
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Gender and History: Ireland 1852-1922Publisher:
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Changing gender role attitudes in Ireland , political violence and genderDOI:
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003164944ISBN:
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