This chapter analyses the changing social and economic position of Irish women over the two decades from 1990s with a focus on role of women as 'carer-earner'. The position of women in relation to paid employment, unpaid ...
Galligan, Yvonne(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2002)
This paper considers the subject of women’s political presence in the Northern Ireland Assembly and the Dáil from three perspectives—numerical presence, women representing women and gendered political institutions. It ...
Conventional approaches to menopause tend to contrast the biomedical position on menopause with women’s actual experiences of it. Rather than focusing primarily on the tensions between these perspectives (biomedical vs. ...
Gibbons, Mary(University College Dublin. School of Social Justice. Women's Studies, 2012-09)
This article examines the role of Irish farmwomen during the National Farmers’ Association, Farmers’ Rights Campaign, which took place in 1966-67. It shows the “invisible” role that these women played during this campaign. ...
Byrne, Siobhan(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2009)
When we take the experiences of women seriously, the lessons that we can draw from the Northern Ireland peace process for future peace tracks in the Middle East
are not necessarily the same lessons that are highlighted ...