Browsing by Subject "Feminism"
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Aesthetics and emotion in an organisational ethnography
(Inderscience, 2008-11)In this paper, I argue that an aesthetic approach can help us to better understand workplace ethnography. Ethnography is sensory by nature; it can incorporate a feeling of rightness and beauty in the experience of 'being-with' ... -
Cailís mo chuid fola/ the chalice of my blood: stigmatized female identity in Celia de Fréine’s Fiacha Fola
(Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra/Coimbra University Press, 2017)Discussion of Celia de Fréine's poetry collection 'Fiacha Fola' (2005) about the Hepatitis C scandal -
Doing transnational feminism, transforming human rights: the emancipatory possibilities revisited
(SAGE Publications, 2012-10-24)This article contributes to cross-disciplinary engagement with the idea of transnationality through a discussion of transnational feminisms. In particular, it reviews and responds to some of the more critical readings of ... -
Exploring young women’s attitudes towards the feminist movement and popular music artists’ claims to feminism
(School of Political Science and Sociology, University of Galway, 2021)The last decade has seen a marked increase in public visibility of feminism. Numerous factors have contributed to this; not least the growing number of celebrities aligning themselves with the feminist movement. This ... -
Finding ‘Room to Manoeuvre’: Gender, agency and the family farm
(Rowman and Littlefield, 2014)Women on Irish farms have been a subject of feminist analysis over the past two decades. Salient themes in the literature on farm women have been the constraints of patriarchal agriculture (O'Hara 1997; Shortall, 2004), ... -
Heeding the stains: Lacan and organizational change
(Emerald, 2009-03)Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to add to current discussions on the use of Lacanian psychoanalysis in organizational change. Specifically, It argues that critiques of Lacan's work must be acknowledged and incorporated ... -
Linking Local and Global Feminist Advocacy: Framing Women's Rights as Human Rights in the Republic of Ireland
(Elsevier, 2007)This article argues that global-level feminist advocacy in the 1990s has had a significant impact within feminist advocacy in the Republic of Ireland. An important manifestation of this is the growing engagement of groups ... -
Narrating in/security: women's activism in Kashmir
(2015-09)This thesis explores women activists’ narratives of everyday experiences of in/security through a qualitative case study in Kashmir, northern India. In order to gather women’s in/security narratives I conducted 13 in-depth ... -
Negotiating Genders from the Page to the Stage: Marina Carr and Suzan-Lori Parks
(2011-09-30)'Negotiating Genders from the Page to the Stage: Marina Carr and Suzan-Lori Parks' explores how two female playwrights, from different cultures and backgrounds, challenge oppressive traditions. It offers the first major ... -
‘Optics of Intersectionality’: Unpacking women’s travel experiences through Instagram
(School of Political Science and Sociology, University of Galway, 2020)This research applies the feminist framework of intersectionality to female travel and the role that Instagram plays in those experiences. Using a qualitative approach and engaging in interviews with four travel ... -
Persepolis: the story of a childhood
(Cambridge University Students Union, 2005-06)Review of Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel 'Persepolis'. -
Rethinking the Interplay of Feminism and Secularism in a Neo-Secular Age
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2011-03-16)The need to re-examine established ways of thinking about secularism and its relationship to feminism has arisen in the context of the confluence of a number of developments including: the increasing dominance of the 'clash ... -
'The UN "Beijing Platform for Action" 1995-2005: Local Global Political Spaces, NGO Advocacy, and Governmental Responses in the Republic of Ireland',
(Routledge, 2005)Introduction September 2005 marks the tenth anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women (Beijing 1995) and the adoption of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPFA) by 189 governments, including Ireland. From February ...