Masculinity and Power in Irish Nationalism, 1884-1938

Aidan Beatty (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

266 Seiten

2018 | 1st ed. 2016
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-68416-8 (ISBN)

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This book is a comparative study of masculinity and white racial identity in Irish nationalism and Zionism. It analyses how both national movements sought to refute widespread anti-Irish or anti-Jewish stereotypes and create more prideful (and highly gendered) images of their respective nations. Drawing on English-, Irish-, and Hebrew-language archival sources, Aidan Beatty traces how male Irish nationalists sought to remake themselves as a proudly Gaelic-speaking race, rooted both in their national past as well as in the spaces and agricultural soil of Ireland. On the one hand, this was an attempt to refute contemporary British colonial notions that they were somehow a racially inferior or uncomfortably hybridised people. But this is also presented in the light of the general history of European nationalism; nationalist movements across Europe often crafted romanticised images of the nation’s past and Irish nationalism was thus simultaneously European and postcolonial. It is this that makes Irish nationalism similar to Zionism, a movement that sought to create a more idealized image of the Jewish past that would disprove contemporary anti-Semitic stereotypes.

Aidan Beatty is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies and Scholar-in-Residence at the School of Canadian Irish Studies at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada.

Acknowledgements-. Glossary of Irish Terms-. List of Images-. Introduction-. 1. Time, Gender, and the Politics of National Liberation, 1916-1923-. 2. Organised Manhood-. 3. The Genders of Nationalist Space-. 4. National Sovereignty, Male Power, and the Irish Language-. 5. Fianna Fáil, Masculinity, and the Economics of National Salvation-. 6. Regulating Sex, Gender, and Leisure in the Irish Free State-. Conclusions-. Bibliography.

Erscheinungsdatum	05.12.2018
Reihe/Serie	Genders and Sexualities in History
Zusatzinfo	3 Illustrations, color; 7 Illustrations, black and white; XV, 266 p. 10 illus., 3 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
Schlagworte	Gender • Israel • racial identity • Twentieth century • Zionism
ISBN-10	1-349-68416-3 / 1349684163
ISBN-13	978-1-349-68416-8 / 9781349684168
Zustand	Neuware