Irish Modernism and the Politics of Sexual Health (2023) by Lloyd (Meadhbh) Houston

Autor: Cathryn Piwinski
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: The Parish Review, Vol 7, Iss 2 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2634-145X
DOI: 10.16995/pr.11673
Popis: Lloyd (Meadhbh) Houston’s Irish Modernism and the Politics of Sexual Health combines archival research with incisive textual analysis to examine how topics such as sex, fertility, contraception, hygiene, and eugenics were circulated in Ireland from the end of the nineteenth century and into the twentieth. Reading medical case studies and newspaper articles alongside literary works by J.M. Synge, W.B. Yeats, Samuel Beckett, Kate O’Brien, and Brian O’Nolan, Houston’s book is a remarkable history of sexual politics and sexual rhetoric in Irish public life.
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