Women, Reform, And Resistance In Ireland, 1850–1950

Women, Reform, and Resistance documents the challenges faced by Irish women from 1850 to 1950 and their complex reactions. By investigating prisons, and hospitals; interrogating court records and memoirs; and exploring the 'imaginative resistance' women expressed through folk tales; authors illuminate previously obscured experiences of Irish women.

• | Author: Christina S. Brophy, Cara Delay
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: Oct 12, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 253 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1137513136
• | ISBN-13: 9781137513137