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After the Train: Irishwomen United and a Network of Change

Editat de Evelyn Conlon, Rebecca Pelan Cuvânt înainte de Mary McAleese
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 aug 2025

Considerăm acest volum ca fiind un instrument de referință esențial pentru nivelul de licență și master în studiile de gen, sociologie și istorie politică. After the Train recuperează memoria colectivă a organizației Irishwomen United (IWU), un actor central în transformarea peisajului social irlandez după anul 1971. Remarcăm cum structura celor 19 eseuri, semnate de activiste care au fost pe teren, oferă o perspectivă „din interior” asupra unor momente cruciale, de la ocupări de spații publice până la înființarea primelor centre pentru crize de viol și clinici de sănătate reproductivă.

Subliniem importanța acestui demers editorial coordonat de Evelyn Conlon și Rebecca Pelan, care reușește să salveze de la ștergerea istorică eforturile unei generații. Volumul funcționează ca o alternativă necesară la The Irish Women’s Movement de Linda Connolly pentru cursurile de mișcări sociale; în timp ce Linda Connolly oferă o analiză sociologică de ansamblu a secolului XX, After the Train aduce avantajul mărturiilor directe și al unei arhive vizuale inedite (afișe, fotografii, memorabilie) care nu au mai fost publicate anterior.

În contextul operei sale, Evelyn Conlon face trecerea de la explorarea condiției umane prin beletristică, vizibilă în A Glassful of Letters sau Telling, către o documentare factuală riguroasă a activismului care i-a definit parcursul. Cartea este organizată tematic, acoperind nu doar luptele politice, ci și infrastructura culturală creată de femei, precum editurile Arlen House sau Attic Press. Progresia textelor, de la introducerea contextuală a lui Mary McAleese până la reflecțiile personale despre politizarea vieții private, oferă o imagine completă a modului în care ideile radicale au fost transformate în schimbări legislative și instituționale durabile.

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ISBN-13: 9781068502309
ISBN-10: 1068502304
Pagini: 300
Ilustrații: 10 halftones
Dimensiuni: 180 x 246 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: University College Dublin Press
Colecția University College Dublin Press

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Recomandăm această carte cercetătorilor și studenților interesați de istoria activismului feminist. Cititorul câștigă acces la o arhivă documentară unică și la mărturii de primă mână despre cum s-au pus bazele drepturilor reproductive în Irlanda. Este o lectură fundamentală pentru a înțelege mecanismele schimbării sociale, oferind o perspectivă rară asupra modului în care rețelele de solidaritate pot influența politicile de stat și mentalitățile colective.


Despre autor

Evelyn Conlon este una dintre cele mai importante voci literare ale Irlandei contemporane, membră a Aosdána și activistă de lungă durată în cadrul Irishwomen United. Opera sa, care include romane precum A Glassful of Letters și colecții de povestiri ca Moving about the Place, este recunoscută pentru spiritul critic și observația fină a structurilor sociale. În After the Train, Conlon își folosește expertiza narativă și experiența personală pentru a edita o cronică istorică necesară. Rebecca Pelan, co-editor, aduce rigoarea academică specifică studiilor de gen, consolidând valoarea documentară a acestui volum publicat de University College Dublin Press.


Descriere scurtă

A glimpse at the long and winding history of Irishwomen United reminds us how far we’ve come. 

The vast accomplishments of modern Irish feminism would look very different without the courageous, yet often overlooked, efforts of Irishwomen United (IWU) activists in the years following the Contraceptive Train of 1971. This phenomenal collection of nineteen essays offers firsthand, historical accounts of on-the-ground activities during this period, shining a light of neglected truth on the history of how Ireland was changed. In this book, writer and IWU member Evelyn Conlon, with the academic and editorial support of Rebecca Pelan, ensures the impact of the organization will no longer be forgotten.

The collective memories of these women describe everything from pickets to sit-ins, self-questioning to dancing, the development of feminist ideas, and publishing despite the restrictive laws and attitudes surrounding them. Through relentless, difficult discussions, publications, marches, and allyship with the global Feminist and Civil Rights Movement, the ideas of IWU were transformed into action for the sake of reproductive rights, sexuality, representation, and rape crisis work.

A foreword from former Irish President Mary McAleese contextualizes the collective labor of IWU within a not-so-distant past in Ireland. This book also features an archive of original art, flyers, photographs, and memorabilia of the movement, many appearing for the first time in print.

Irishwomen United and their allies set the precedent for change for the next generation. The stories of these women campaigners are not only representative of past movements but also a call to action for future social justice activists in the fight for liberation and equality for all.
 

Notă biografică

Evelyn Conlon has published four novels, four collections of short stories, and a compilation of essays titled Reading Rites. She has also edited five anthologies. She is adjunct professor at Carlow University, Pittsburgh. She was a member of Irishwomen United and a founding member of the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre. Rebecca Pelan has worked in Ireland, Australia, and America in the fields of English, women’s studies, and Irish studies, and has published extensively on Irish fiction and drama. She was the general editor of Irish Feminist Review and worked in University College Dublin’s Gender Studies Outreach program for several years before retiring in 2017. Between 2014 and 2022, Pelan was a volunteer with and then a staff member of the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre.

Cuprins

Contents
List of Illustrations
Glossary of Terms
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introductions:
The Untold SparkEvelyn Conlon
After the Train: Irishwomen United and a Network of ChangeRebecca Pelan
Essays:
Irishwomen United: Nothing Was Off-limitsUrsula Barry
Arlen House: A Pioneer of Irish PublishingMary Rose Callaghan
Dublin Rape Crisis CentreCollective Essay
The Well Woman CentreAnne Connolly
DJ at the Women’s DiscoJoni Crone
Reflections on the Irish Women’s MovementGaye Cunningham
We All Know Where You Were at the WeekendMary Doran
You Bring the Gay sisters, and I’ll Bring the SocialistsMary Dorcey
Remembering Feminist Publishing of the 1980sMary Flanagan and Marianne Hendron

Children Have Equal Rights in Society Here (Cherish)Mary Higgins
Attic Press: A ReflectionMary Paul Keane
Space for Radical ChangeGer Moane
I Just Wanted to Do Something PracticalAnne O’Donnell
The Feminist WayMary O’Donnell
The Personal Really Was PoliticalBetty Purcell
Reflections from Another Country: Irish Pregnancy Counselling
Centre (IPCC)Ruth Riddick
And Sisters, We Were Controlled: Ireland in the 1970s Anne Speed
Fabulously Blasphemous: Finding Myself in Irishwomen UnitedSaundra Stephen
Notes
Appendix 1: Charter of Irishwomen United
Appendix 2: Chronology of Women’s achievements in Ireland 1861–1993.
Bibliography
Index

Recenzii

"The fearless, exuberant women of Irishwomen United, who refused to be silenced by either church or state, are an essential part of our feminist history… It is impossible to understand modern Ireland without including the history of Irishwomen United… This collection of essays recalls those riotous, exhausting and occasionally joyous times as patriarchal control of Irish women began to crumble under the challenge."

"After the Train is an exhilarating and immensely readable collection of essays by many of the women involved in Irishwomen United, and those it has since inspired, who took on the big taboos. [The book] sets the record straight and powerfully kicks back against the airbrushing of feminism from Irish history… an altogether timely reminder that courageous collective action can overturn oppression and blast open the path towards freedom, autonomy and equality for all. It should be in every library, school and university in the country."