Banshees

Sally Barr Ebest is professor of English and director of the Gender Studies Programme at the University of Missouri–St. Louis, USA. She is the coeditor of Reconciling Catholicism and Feminism? Personal Reflections on Tradition and Change and Too Smart to Be Sentimental: Contemporary Irish American Women Writers.

The Banshees is notable for its intelligent coordination of the cultural history of feminism with the literature produced by a major ethnic group—Irish-American women. - Charles Fanning, author of The Irish Voice in America""Strongly contextualized, historically specific, energetic and lively, this study offers a compelling account of Irish American women writers and writing.""—Maria Luddy, author of Women In Ireland 1800–1918: A Documentary History""Ambitious and sweeping in scope, The Banshees covers an impressive range of journalists, novelists, memoirists, and cultural critics from the late nineteenth century through the twenty-first. Ebest considers the writers’ legacies outside the confines of the Irish American literary canon, within the contexts of American social evolution, second- and third-wave feminism, and the American Catholic Church.""—Maureen Dezell, author of Irish America: Coming Into Clover