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| Titre : | "Deposited Elsewhere" : The Sexualized Female Body and the Modern Irish Landscape (2012) |
| Auteurs : | Cara DELAY, Auteur |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Etudes irlandaises (Vol 37 n 1 2012) |
| Article en page(s) : | p. 71-86 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
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| Résumé : | Through an analysis of diaries, memoirs, and folklore narratives, this essay analyzes the containment of the female body in the modern Irish landscape. In particular, it focuses on the ways in which Irish communities both literally and through legendry controlled the sexualized female body from the 1850s to the 1920s. The bodies of sexually active women, pregnant and post-parturient women, and dead women who had committed sexual transgressions were fraught with meaning; dangerous and polluted, they were isolated from the rest of the community. The regulation of the female body within the landscape became a mechanism for harnessing troublesome women. By separating and containing the impure and sexual female body, nineteenth-century Irish communities established the modern gender hierarchies that would result in what James Smith labeled an "architecture of containment" |
| Pays de publication : | France |
| Lieu de publication : | Rennes |
| Mention de responsabilité : | Cara Delay |
| Fonds : | Médiathèque |
