No Pedestals: Women and Violence in Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland

Conley, Carolyn A.

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“…Irish domestic institutions underwent rapid change from 1860 to 1900 especially those related to gendered behavior, inheritance patterns, land tenure, housing, women's work and marriage, migration, and mortality (Clear 2000(Clear , 2008Cohen 1995;Conley 1995;Fitzpatrick 1986;Maccurtain and O'Dowd 1991). Anne O'Dowd reviews an expanding, strengthening patriarchal social system in Ireland that feminized, marginalized, and radically altered women's lives as the century progressed (O' Dowd 1994).…”

Section: The Lives Of Irish Womenmentioning

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A Teapot, a House, or Both? The Material Possessions of Irish Women’s California Assemblages

Yentsch¹

2011

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________________________________________________________________Using a woman-centered approach, artifact assemblages and background documents are analyzed to discern gender behavior and ethnic variations in women's work-cooking, dining, housecleaning-in more frivolous areas-flowers, pets, girls' toys-and personal adornment. Issues of gender bias are discussed. The data show that negative evidence (absence vs. presence) is, at times, misleading and must be carefully considered. Detailed study of the artifacts connected with Irish women suggests their gender values that organized their lives differed from those of Anglo-American women who had a voice in small expressive purchases while men made final decisions on major household purchases. Irish women owned small items too. However, a crucial distinction was an element not covered by the archaeology: a house of their own and owner-occupied, a fact solely visible in documents. ________________________________________________________________Résumé: À l'aide d'une approche axée sur les femmes, des assemblages d'artefacts et des documents d'information sont analysés afin de distinguer le comportement entre les sexes et les variations ethniques dans le travail des femmes, notamment la cuisine, les repas, le ménage ou les domaines plus frivoles -fleurs, animaux, jouets pour filles -et la parure. Les problèmes relatifs au sexisme sont examinés. Les données montrent que les éléments négatifs (absence par opposition à présence) sont parfois trompeurs et qu'ils doivent être soigneusement évalués. L'étude détaillée des objets associés aux Irlandaises permet de penser que les valeurs de sexe qui organisaient leur vie différaient de celles des femmes angloaméricaines qui pouvaient s'exprimer pour les petits achats subjectifs, tandis que les hommes américains prenaient les décisions finales pour les achats ménagers importants. Les Irlandaises achetaient aussi de petits objets. Toutefois, une différence majeure a consisté en un élément non couvert par l'archéologie : leur maison dont ils étaient propriétaires, une information visible uniquement dans les documents.Resumen: Utilizando un enfoque centrado en la mujer, se analizan colecciones de objetos y documentació n de antecedentes para discernir el comportamiento de género y las diferencias étnicas en las tareas de las mujeres, como la cocina, la cena y la limpieza del hogar o aspectos más frívolos, como las flores, las mascotas, los juguetes de las niñ as y los adornos personales. Se debaten cuestiones relacionadas con los prejuicios de género. Los datos demuestran que las pruebas negativas (ausencia frente a presencia) son a veces engañ osas y es necesario evaluarlas cuidadosamente. Un estudio pormenorizado sobre objetos relacionados con las mujeres irlandesas sugiere que los valores de género que conformaban sus vidas eran distintos a los de las mujeres angloamericanas, que tenían voz y voto en pequeñ as compras expresivas, aunque eran los hombres americanos quienes tenían la ú ltima palabra sobre las compras más importantes...

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Section: The Lives Of Irish Womenmentioning

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A Teapot, a House, or Both? The Material Possessions of Irish Women’s California Assemblages

Yentsch¹

2011

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“…In terms of diagnosis, their post-partum condition makes the clinical picture especially complicated [15]. Diagnostic analysis is rendered even more challenging owing to the probable role of social circumstances in the presentations of these women to judicial and psychiatric services: the birth of an illegitimate child was deeply contrary to prevailing social mores in Ireland in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries [26,27] and often led to distressing and conflictual predicaments for women. Conley [26], for example, cites the case of one mother who refused to nurse her illegitimate infant, preferring to place the child in a workhouse instead.…”

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“…Diagnostic analysis is rendered even more challenging owing to the probable role of social circumstances in the presentations of these women to judicial and psychiatric services: the birth of an illegitimate child was deeply contrary to prevailing social mores in Ireland in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries [26,27] and often led to distressing and conflictual predicaments for women. Conley [26], for example, cites the case of one mother who refused to nurse her illegitimate infant, preferring to place the child in a workhouse instead. It is likely that these prevailing social values played a significant role in shaping the context for the judicial, diagnostic and institutional experiences of the five women studied in this paper.…”

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Intellectual disability, mental illness and offending behaviour: forensic cases from early twentieth-century Ireland

Kelly

2008

Ir J Med Sci

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“…Previously, the historiography had focused on England, but there is now a separate, though small, historiography of infanticide in Ireland (Kelly 1992;Conley 1995;Ryan 2004;Rattigan 2008), Scotland (Symonds 1997;Abrams 2002;Kilday 2002Kilday , 2007, and Wales (Ireland 1997;Woodward 2007). Key continuities have emerged, such as the fact that young single women were the main culprits; that there was a high proportion of domestic servants charged with concealing their pregnancy, giving birth in secret and killing the infant almost immediately after delivery; and that there was clear evidence of a growing degree of toleration for the offence during the 18th and 19th centuries.…”

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Infanticide, Religion And Community in the British Isles, 1720–1920: Introduction

Kilday¹,

Watson²

2008

Family & Community History

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This special issue focuses on the crime of infanticide in three of the four constituent nations of the British Isles: England, Scotland and Ireland. The papers collectively point to the fact that although families and communities could be a source of support for women in crisis, they were also the route by which many instances of infanticide were revealed. In addition, the evidence here suggests that the significance of religious cohesiveness to family and community relations may, in some contexts, have encouraged infanticide to occur, due to a pressure to maintain respectability in religiously observant communities. The fact that the crime occurred regardless of the moral climate in each nation suggests that women faced with the reality of bearing a bastard weighed it against the possible consequences of committing infanticide and decided to take the risk. Thus the role of religious belief in the actions of married and unmarried infanticidal women emerges as a unifying contextual theme that is likely to stimulate further research.Social historians of the pre-modern period have tended to offer descriptions of home and family life as being close-knit and affectionate, where families regularly worked together for the benefit of the community in which they lived. Social commentators, religious correspondents and secular authorities alike regarded the family as an essential unit which provided a foundation for the development of morals, manners, and general civility in communities which needed to become socially stable in order to facilitate economic, political and cultural growth. Yet, this notional idyllic picture of how the family should be was often shattered by the reality of domestic relations in Britain throughout the i8th and icjth centuries. Indeed, until the advent of increasingly stringent legal protections for women and children instituted during the zoth century, violence within the family too often tended to escape serious legal sanction (Martin 1978). But although wife battering and child abuse were relatively slow to attract public interest, one form of violence, 'rooted in indifference to infants' (Hoffer and Hull 1984: ix), has long exercised the attention of lawmakers: infanticide, or new-born child murder. This special issue of a journal which addresses family and community history is devoted to a consideration of the circumstances in which this type of crime occurred; when family and community relations could be utterly divided." Violent crimes against children take place mainly within the domestic sphere, the perpetrators most often being a family member, frequently one of the parents. But

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No Pedestals: Women and Violence in Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland

Cited by 47 publications

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A Teapot, a House, or Both? The Material Possessions of Irish Women’s California Assemblages

A Teapot, a House, or Both? The Material Possessions of Irish Women’s California Assemblages

Intellectual disability, mental illness and offending behaviour: forensic cases from early twentieth-century Ireland

Infanticide, Religion And Community in the British Isles, 1720–1920: Introduction

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