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Breaking feminist waves

Acknowledgments

Notes on contributors

Introduction: emergent strands or theory on edge? / Margrit Shildrick

Politics

The politics of sexual difference : the enduring influence of the Catholic Church / Ivana Bacik

Rethinking the Armagh women's dirty protest / Paula Burns

The state, women and Irish abortion policy, 1983-2010 / Sandra McAvoy

Irish migration and Irish sexuality scholarship : queering the connections / Eithne Luibhéid

Affecting trans-feminist solidarity / Breda Gray

Wonderful documents and male begrudgery : post-conflict reconstruction in Northern Ireland / Margaret Ward

Pride, politics, and the right to perform : negotiating civil partnership in Ireland / Fintan Walsh

Culture

Race, sex and nation / Gerardine Meaney

Outside-in and the places in-between : feminist community higher education / Aideen Quilty

"Watch your language" : speculative theory and the poetry of Rita Ann Higgins / Moynagh Sullivan

Knowing the landscape : navigating the language : Chinese women's experience of arrival in Ireland / Edith Shillue

Enjoying substance : psychoanalysis, literature and Joyce's writing of women / Olga Cox Cameron

Culture on the edge : the postfeminist challenge / Debbie Ging

A cure for melancholia? : queer sons, dead mothers and the fantasy of multiculturalism in McCabe's and Jordan's breakfast on Pluto(s) / Anne Mulhall

Quare theory / Noreen Giffney

Interview with Ailbhe Smyth / Bedb Ruane.

Feminism > Ireland.

Sex > Ireland.

Ireland > Social policy.

Ireland > Civilization.

Ireland > Social life and customs.