The Making of Inequality in the Irish Free State, 1922-37: Women, Power and Gender Ideology

by Maryann Gialanella Valiulis

How did Ireland travel from the glorious Proclamation of 1916 with its promise of equality and universal citizenship to the conservative Constitution of 1937, which allowed for only a domestic identity for women? This book is a study of that journey, an overview of how specific pieces of legislation worked together to create an unequal state. Through an analysis of this legislation, which restricted women's political and economic rights, and the gender...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1846827922
• ISBN13: 9781846827921
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Four Courts Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"