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Irish Feminist Futures

This book is about the future: Irelands future and feminisms future, approached from a moment that has recently passed. The Celtic Tiger (circa 19952008) was a time of extraordinary and radical change, in which Irelands economic, demographic, and social structures underwent significant alteration.

Conceptions of the future are powerfully prevalent in womens cultural production in the Tiger era, where it surfaces as a form of temporality that is open to surprise, change, and the unknown. Examining a range of literary and filmic texts, Irish Feminist Futures analyses how futurity structures representations of the feminine self in womens cultural practice. Relationally connected and affectively open, these representations enable critical analyses of gender, race, sexuality, and class as they pertain to the material, social, and cultural realities of Celtic Tiger Ireland.

This book will appeal to students and scholars of Irish studies, Irish feminist criticism, sociology, cultural studies, literature, womens studies, gender studies, neo-materialist and feminist theories.

Claire Bracken is an associate professor in the English Department at Union College, New York, USA. Her publications focus on Irish literature and culture, post- feminism, feminist criticism, and womens writing.

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Irish Feminist Futures

Claire Bracken

First published 2016

by Routledge

2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN

and by Routledge

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Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business

2016 Claire Bracken

The right of Claire Bracken to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe.

British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Bracken, Claire.

Irish feminist futures / by Claire Bracken.

pages cm

ISBN 978-0-415-63598-1 (hardback) ISBN 978-1-315-69793-2 (ebook)

1. FeminismIreland. 2. WomenIreland. I. Title.

HQ1600.3.B73 2015

305.4209417dc23

2015023812

ISBN: 978-0-415-63598-1 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-315-69793-2 (ebk)

Typeset in Times New Roman

by Wearset Ltd, Boldon, Tyne and Wear

Disclaimer: Every effort has been made to contact copyright-holders. Please advise the publisher of any errors or omissions, and these will be corrected in subsequent editions.

For my loving Nana Delia (Kitty) Costello 19252015

Contents

This book has been a long work in progress, changing in shape, form, and content over the many years spent on it. So many wonderful and generous people gave me their love, help, support, and advice throughout, which made the process so much easier, nicer, and fun.

First and foremost, I would like to thank Gerardine Meaney for her constant guidance, mentorship and professional care. Her illuminating and brilliant scholarship inspires all of what I do.

Susan Cahill and Emma Radley have spent countless hours reading drafts, commenting on texts, and discussing the ideas of this book. Their input has been beyond valuable and I can never thank them enough for all their generosity and love. Such good friends! I am also extremely lucky to have been part of a reading group with two other wonderful friends, Abby Bender and Mary McGlynn. Our lunch dates were always so lovely, and such a nice break from writing. I am so grateful for all the chapter reading and incisive insights and advice.

Thanks also to my fantastic Union English department friends and colleagues Kara Doyle, Judith Lewin, Katherine Lynes, and Jill Marie Murphy for reading drafts of this book, their constant encouragement and for making work such a lovely place to be. I am also extremely grateful to Nadia Louar and Patrick Bixby for their feedback on sections of the book and their care and friendship throughout.

I am so fortunate to have the most wonderful group of mentors and friends. A huge thanks to Mary Burke, Claire Connolly, Patricia Coughlan, Marjorie Howes, Anne Mulhall, Cliona O Gallchoir, Tina OToole, Margaret Kelleher, Lucy McDiarmid, Ellen McWilliams, Jody Allen Randolph, Maureen Reddy, and Moynagh Sullivan for their constant support and the inspirations of their feminist critical work. Particular gratitude to Lucy McDiarmid and Frank Miata for making me so at home here in New York and for many evenings spent in vibrant conversation and chat. Thanks also to Anne Enright for her generosity and kindnesses, and for beautiful fictions that always move and amaze every time I read.

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