A “New Irish Woman” Emerges: Subverting Femininity in Maeve Kelly’s A Life of Her Own
Women in Irish fiction have been largely the creation of male writers, and the embodiment of religious virtues such as purity and passivity, conventionally regarded as “feminine.” Not only the Roman Catholic Church but also the State progressively contributed to the social construct of Irish womanho...
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Asociación Española de Estudios Irlandeses
2017-03-01
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| Series: | Estudios Irlandeses |
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| Online Access: | http://www.estudiosirlandeses.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Artículo-9-Rivera-Izquierdo.pdf |