ISBN:
9781846827921
Language:
English
Pages:
188 Seiten
,
24 cm
DDC:
305.4209415
Keywords:
Sex discrimination against women Government policy
;
Equality
;
Women Social conditions 20th century
;
Women's rights History 20th century
;
Women's rights
;
Women ; Social conditions
;
Social conditions
;
Equality
;
Sex discrimination against women ; Government policy
;
Ireland
;
History
;
Ireland Social conditions 1922-1973
;
Irland
;
Frau
;
Diskriminierung
;
Geschichte 1922-1937
Abstract:
The promise of equality, the perseverance of patriarchy -- The first test of citizenship; jury service for women, or 'No women need apply' -- For men only: the right to employment -- The ecclesiastical sanctioning of domesticity -- Women and the issue of public identity.
Abstract:
"How did Ireland travel from the glorious Proclamation of 1916, with its promise of equality and universal citizenship, to the conservative constitution of 1937, which allowed for only a domestic identity for women? This book is a study of that journey, an overview of how specific pieces of legislation worked together to create an unequal state. Through an analysis of this legislation, which restricted women's political and economic rights, and the gender ideology it revealed, this book looks at how the promise of the revolution was thwarted and denied. In so doing, it examines the roles of women and women's organizations in this journey from equality to inequality and how women's citizenship was conceptualized.The triumph of conservatism was the result of a myriad of circumstances, the treaty that ended the Anglo-Irish War, the Civil War, and the influence of the Catholic church. Perhaps most significant was the persistence of patriarchy, which ensured the temporary success of a Catholic church-controlled, male-dominated, traditional society in which women's quest for unfettered citizenship and a free and equal role in the public sphere was hindered and obstructed. From this unfinished revolution, however, emerged a vibrant twentieth-century feminist movement that contributed to an evolving, liberal, democratic state." --
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-176) and index
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