Theory on the Edge

Introduction: Emergent Strands or Theory on Edge?; Margrit Shildrick Women's Studies and the Disciplines; Ailbhe Smyth PART I: POLITICS 1. The Politics of Sexual Difference: The Enduring Influence of the Catholic Church; Ivana Bacik 2. Rethinking the Armagh Women's Dirty Protest; Paula Burns 3. The State, Women, and Irish Abortion Policy, 1983-2010; Sandra McAvoy 4. Irish Migration and Irish Sexuality Scholarship: Queering the Connections; Eithne Luibheid 5. Affecting Trans-feminist Solidarity; Breda Gray 6. Wonderful Documents and Male Begrudgery: Post-Conflict Reconstruction in Northern Ireland; Margaret Ward 7. Pride, Politics, and the Right to Perform: Negotiating Civil Partnership in Ireland; Fintan Walsh PART II: CULTURE 8. Race, Sex, and Nation; Gerardine Meaney 9. Outside-In and the Places In-Between: Feminist Community Higher Education; Aideen Quilty 10. "Watch your Language": Speculative Theory and the Poetry of Rita Ann Higgins; Moynagh Sullivan 11. Knowing the Landscape, Navigating the Language: Chinese Women's Experience of Arrival in Ireland; Edith Shillue 12. Enjoying Substance: Psychoanalysis, Literature and Joyce's Writing of Women; Olga Cox Cameron 13. Culture on the Edge: The Postfeminist Challenge; Debbie Ging 14. A Cure for Melancholia? Queer Sons, Dead Mothers, and the Fantasy of Multiculturalism in McCabe and Jordan's Breakfast on Pluto (s); Anne Mulhall 15. Quare Theory; Noreen Giffney Interview with Ailbhe Smyth; Medb Ruane