Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-190) and index.
Contents
Introduction: "a proper object of study": contemporary women's writing -- Undoing that "other" conquest: women's writing from the Republic of Ireland -- The unfinished revolution: women's writing from Northern Ireland -- Surveying the new minefield.
Summary
Rebecca Pelan analyzes religion, region, class, and national and ethnic identity as crucial contexts in shaping feminist consciousness in the two Irelands, and compares the divergence of feminist perspectives to be found North and South of the border.
