The Irish Novel at the End of the Twentieth Century Gender, Bodies, and Power

The Irish Novel at the End of the Twentieth Century: Gender, Bodies and Power interprets a wide variety of the most interesting Irish novels of the last ten years of the century from a perspective that focuses on the regulated sexual and constructed gendered body. The demarcating line of identity-th...

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Main Author: Jeffers, Jennifer M.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Palgrave Macmillan US 2002, 2002
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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520 |a The Irish Novel at the End of the Twentieth Century: Gender, Bodies and Power interprets a wide variety of the most interesting Irish novels of the last ten years of the century from a perspective that focuses on the regulated sexual and constructed gendered body. The demarcating line of identity-the perennial Irish problem-can be gauged at the basic level of sexual and gender identity in contrast to or in alliance with political, social, religious or cultural norms. All mechanisms that have gone into controlling the body-gender regulation, violence, desire, religious taboos-can all be reinterpreted through the body in motion