Austerity and Irish Women’s Writing and Culture, 1980–2020

Austerity and Irish Womens Writing and Culture,1980–2020 explores the under-represented relationship between austerity and Irish womens writing across the last four decades, analyzing cultural production through four distinct lenses: austerity, feminism, conflict, arts and austerity, race and austerity, and spaces of austerity. It provides a much-needed analysis of the gendered experience of economic crisis and Irelands consistent relationship with cycles of boom and bust.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 252 pages
Publication date: 29 January 2024
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Austerity and Irish Women's Writing and Culture, 1980-2020 delves into the overlooked connection between austerity and Irish women's writing over the past four decades. Spanning various cultural mediums, this collection of essays by esteemed scholars in Irish studies explores how economic policies have influenced and been depicted in Irish women's writing during pivotal moments in recent Irish history. By examining cultural production both north and south of the border, this collection employs a multimedium approach through four distinct lenses: austerity, feminism, conflict, arts and austerity, race and austerity, and spaces of austerity. This collection poses two central inquiries: what kind of cultural output does austerity generate? And if the effects of austerity are gendered, what are the gender-specific responses to financial insecurity, both nationally and domestically? By investigating how austerity is treated in women's writing and culture from 1980 to 2020, this collection offers a much-needed analysis of the gendered experience of economic crisis, particularly Ireland's enduring relationship with cycles of boom and bust. Thirteen chapters, encompassing fiction, drama, poetry, women's life writing, and women's cultural contributions, delve into these questions. This volume takes the reader on a journey across decades and forms, serving as a means of interrogating the growth of the economic divide between the rich and the poor since the 1980s through the voices of Irish women.

Weight: 392g
Dimension: 228 x 152 x 16 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032075228