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The Female and the Species

The Animal in Irish Women’s Writing

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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften


Paru le : 2011-01-14



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Describing the Irish as ‘female’ and ‘bestial’ is a practice dating back to the twelfth century, while for women, inside and outside of Ireland, their association with children, animals and other ‘savages’ has had a long history. A link among systems of oppression has been asserted in recent decades by some feminists, but linking women’s rights with animal advocacy can be controversial. This strategy responds to the fact that women’s inferiority has been alleged and justified by appropriating them to nature, an appropriation that colonialism has also practiced on its racial and cultural others. Nineteenth-century feminists braved such associations, for instance, often asserting vegetarianism as a form of rebellion against the dominant culture. Vegetarianism and animal advocacy have uniquely Irish implications. This study examines a tradition of Irish women writers deploying the ‘natural’ as a gesture of resistance to paternalist regulation of female energies and as a self-consciously elaborated stage for the performance of Irish identity. They call into question the violent dislocations and disavowals required by figurative practices, particularly when utilizing Irish topography, an already ‘unnatural’ cultural construct shaped by conflict and suffering.
Pages
203 pages
Collection
n.c
Parution
2011-01-14
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
EAN papier
9783039119592
EAN PDF
9783035300338
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Nombre pages copiables
40
Nombre pages imprimables
40
Taille du fichier
1935 Ko
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