Working Class Heroines (eBook)

Kevin C. Kearns (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
Gill Books (Verlag)
9780717162703 (ISBN)

Infos

In Working Class Heroines acclaimed historian Kevin C. Kearns brings us the voices of the forgotten women of Dublin's tenements. If it weren't for his work the lives of these everyday heroines would be lost forever. Based on 30 years of research spent interviewing and recording the life stories of the working-class women of Dublin, it covers the squalid tenement days of the early 1900s, through the mid-century decades of 'slumland' block flats, and into the 1970s when deadly drugs infiltrated poor neighbourhoods, terrifying mothers and stealing away their children. What emerges is an intimate and poignant celebration of the mammies and grannies who held the fabric of family life in an environment of hardship and, often, cruelty.Through vivid tales of how they coped with grinding poverty, huge families, pitiless landlords, the oppressive Church, dictatorial priests, feckless and often abusive husbands, these remarkable women shine with astonishing dignity, wit, pride and a resilient spirit, despite their struggles.Working Class Heroines gives voice and pays tribute to the long silent, unsung heroines who were the indispensable caretakers of both family and community, and remains one of the most important Irish feminist documents of our times."e;The ordinary woman has long been absent from our national narrative. I think we should be grateful that Working Class Heroines exists, and we can benefit now from listening to these voices.' Ellen Coyne, The Sunday Times

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.9.2018
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: Dublin heroin crisis • Dublin's Lost Heroines • Dublin slums • Dublin Tenement Lives • Dublin tenements • early 20th century Dublin • Extraordinary Women • family life • Gill Books • inner-city Dublin • inspirational women • Irish heroines • Irish History • Irish oral history • Kevin C. Kearns • Kevin Kearns • Low wages • Mammies and Grannies • matriarchal societies • Mothers • Oral History • Poverty • real life heroines • Stoneybatter • the extraordinary women of Dublin's tenements • The Liberties • twentieth century Ireland • Unemployment • working class Dublin • Working Class Heroines
• ISBN-13: 9780717162703 / 9780717162703