Masculinity and Power in Irish Nationalism, 1884-1938

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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This book is a comparative study of masculinity and white racial identity in Irish nationalism and Zionism. It analyses how both national movements sought to refute widespread anti-Irish or anti-Jewish stereotypes and create more prideful (and highly gendered) images of their respective nations. Drawing on English-, Irish-, and Hebrew-language archival sources, Aidan Beatty traces how male Irish nationalists sought to remake themselves as a proudly Gaelic-speaking race, rooted both in their national past as well as in the spaces and agricultural soil of Ireland. On the one hand, this was an attempt to refute contemporary British colonial notions that they were somehow a racially inferior or uncomfortably hybridised people. But this is also presented in the light of the general history of European nationalism; nationalist movements across Europe often crafted romanticised images of the nation’s past and Irish nationalism was thus simultaneously European and postcolonial. It is this that makes Irish nationalism similar to Zionism, a movement that sought to create a more idealized image of the Jewish past that would disprove contemporary anti-Semitic stereotypes.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2018-12-08
Mått148 x 210 x 16 mm
Vikt371 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieGenders and Sexualities in History
Antal sidor266
Upplaga18001
FörlagPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN9781349684168

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Acknowledgements-. Glossary of Irish Terms-. List of Images-. Introduction-. 1. Time, Gender, and the Politics of National Liberation, 1916-1923-. 2. Organised Manhood-. 3. The Genders of Nationalist Space-. 4. National Sovereignty, Male Power, and the Irish Language-. 5. Fianna Fáil, Masculinity, and the Economics of National Salvation-. 6. Regulating Sex, Gender, and Leisure in the Irish Free State-. Conclusions-. Bibliography.

“Aidan Beatty’s insightful and compelling monograph … makes bold strides in addressing the acknowledged lack of investigations into gender and, more specifically, masculinities in modern Irish history. … This is a history that will be of great interest to scholars of gender and sexuality, but it is also a good story well told for those with broader interests in Ireland’s past, particularly during those ever-important decades that defined Ireland’s manly sense of self for the rest of the twentieth century.” (Jane McGaughey, The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, Vol. 42, 2019)“This volume will find appreciative readers not only within Irish and Zionist studies, but in fields more broadly concerned with questions of nationalism and gender. For those concerned with the practical value of work on history, this book's publication is all the more important when one considers not only the centenary of the Irish revolutionary period, butmore significantly, the rise of sexist nationalism around the globe.” (Charles Clements, breac.nd.edu, October, 2017)