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Archived Version 2020 - 2021
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Description This module considers constructions of gender in nineteenth-century Ireland with a focus on the manner which women’s lives were shaped by the prevailing ideology of separate spheres. This determined a largely private and domestic role for women with due attention to issues of class. The module will consider the treatment of so-called ‘deviant’ women who existed outside the domestic paradigm. The module will then focus on the campaigns for greater equality for women in society, with a focus on the suffrage campaign. The module will conclude with an examination of women in nationalist campaigns with an emphasis on the revolutionary period 1913-1921. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Learning Outcomes 1. Demonstrate knowledge of the key themes in the historiography of nineteenth-century Irish women 2. Evaluate the manner in which gender is a social and cultural construct 3. Develop an understanding of the manner in which constructions of male and female societal roles were disseminated and underpinned in nineteenth-century Ireland 4. Develop an understanding of the manner which gender analysis must be linked to an understanding of class in nineteenth-century Ireland. 5. Engage with a variety of primary and secondary texts. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Learning Activities The ideology of separate spheresThis section of the module will examine the ideology of separate spheres, the manner in which it was disseminated through prescriptive literature and underpinned by the churches, the legal profession and the medical profession. The manner in which the ideology both can be said to have restricted and empowered women in the nineteenth-century will be discussed, the latter with a focus on the cult of motherhood. The manner in which the ideology was imposed on the lower classes will be examined.‘Deviant womenThe manner in which women that existed outside the dominant domestic paradigm will be examined with a focus on prostitutes, women and crime and women who committed infanticide.The campaigns for equalityThis section of the module will focus on the campaigns for custody and rights within marriage, greater educational opportunities and the campaigns, both constitutional and militant, for the parliamentary vote.Irish nationalist womenThis section will focus on the tensions between women in the nationalist campaign and suffrage campaign in the early twentieth century before examining the role of women in the revolutionary period 1913-1921. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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