The Female and the Species: The Animal in Irish Women's Writing by Maureen O'Connor

The Female and the Species: The Animal in Irish Women's Writing

Reimagining Ireland

Maureen O'Connor

193 pages • missing pub info (editions)

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Describing the Irish as 'female' and 'bestial' is a practice dating back to the twelfth century, while for women, inside and outside of Ireland, their association with children, animals and other 'savages' has had a long history. A link among syst...

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