Theory on the Edge

1. Introduction: Emergent Strands or Theory on Edge?
Margrit Shildrick

2. Women’s Studies and the Disciplines
Ailbhe Smyth

Part I. Politics

3. The Politics of Sexual Difference: The Enduring Influence of the Catholic Church
Ivana Bacik

4. Rethinking the Armagh Women’s Dirty Protest
Paula Burns

5. Vindicating Women’s Rights in a Fetocentric State: The Longest Irish Journey
Sandra McAvoy

6. Irish Migration and Irish Sexuality Scholarship: Queering the Connections
Eithne Luibhéid

7. Affecting Trans-feminist Solidarity
Breda Gray

8. Wonderful Documents and Male Begrudgery: Postconflict Reconstruction in Northern Ireland
Margaret Ward

9. Pride, Politics, and the Right to Perform
Fintan Walsh

Part II. Culture

10. Race, Sex, and Nation: Virgin Mother Ireland
Gerardine Meaney

11. Outside-in and the Places In-between: Feminist Community Higher Education
Aideen Quilty

12. “Watch Your Language”: Speculative Theory and the Poetry of Rita Ann Higgins
Moynagh Sullivan

13. Knowing the Landscape: Navigating the Language—Chinese Women’s Experience of Arrival in Ireland
Edith Shillue

14. Enjoying Substance: Psychoanalysis, Literature, and Joyce’s Writing of Women
Olga Cox Cameron

15. Culture on the Edge: The Postfeminist Challenge
Debbie Ging

16. 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

17. Quare Theory
Noreen Giffney

18. Interview with Ailbhe Smyth
Medb Ruane

Nyckelord: Social Sciences, Gender Studies, Social Theory, European Culture, Feminism, Area Studies