is a Sydney-based photographer and film-maker. Her films include Nice Coloured Girls and Night Cr... more is a Sydney-based photographer and film-maker. Her films include Nice Coloured Girls and Night Cries, and her publications a photo series, Scarred for Life, in RePublica, issue 3 (1995). She was recently awarded an Australian Council fellowship.
This collection of 16 essays by Irish feminist scholars and activists explores the politics of ab... more This collection of 16 essays by Irish feminist scholars and activists explores the politics of abortion in Ireland and considers its social, ethical and political implications.
������ Each one of these themes is both an entirety unto itself and inextricably linked with the ... more ������ Each one of these themes is both an entirety unto itself and inextricably linked with the others. Each one is freighted and fraught, burdened and bent under a weight of intricately inflected meanings, all complex, often contradictory, and crucial for all of us, diverse though we be, as feminists. I could say that each is crucial to feminist discourse, which is another way of saying not quite the same thing, but I won't, because it's not enough: feminist practice (in which I include feminist thinking) needs real live heart and body and head and soul feminists to challenge and protest and take up the issues and do something about them. BRING BACK POLITICS, and the material, messy world of the everyday, because thAif s where it hurts, in women's bodies and hearts and heads and souls. And thafs what we need to be talking and thinking and doing something about. You think thafs too concrete for Women's Studies? Well, some days I wake up and read the paper, like toda...
n the past, when I went to doctors, psychiatrists, priests and nurses they used to talk down to m... more n the past, when I went to doctors, psychiatrists, priests and nurses they used to talk down to me. Now I have more confidence to talk to them. I also learned that I have views on subjects. I'm getting ambitious and the classes are too slow for me We would like a history class, but there is no accommodation.' Lily Fitzgerald Four years ago, the Commision on Adult Education, in its report Lifelong Learning, 2 recommended that the `important work' already being done in the field of women's education should be further developed. They went on to comment: `In a general way adult education has an important part to play in releasing the potential of women as contributors to all aspects of Irish life, including the economy. It should prompt a growing awareness of women's rights and of the necessity to persevere in securing them'. Unfortunately, the Report failed to develop a critique of existing Adult Education provision for women and offered no recommendations or gu...
This piece was written by invitation as a personal response to It Has No Name , an art exhibition... more This piece was written by invitation as a personal response to It Has No Name , an art exhibition held in Dublin in 2013. In the exhibition, the four artists—Pauline Cummins, Sandra Johnston, Frances Mezzeti, and Dominic Thorpe—explored through live performances the shocking revelations emerging since the early 1990s of widespread and brutal clerical and institutional abuse of children, young people, and women in Ireland.
Some things insist on becoming lost, like the be-ribboned straw hat L hutcure examine &S reprisen... more Some things insist on becoming lost, like the be-ribboned straw hat L hutcure examine &S reprisentations the girl waved over the bridge snnrelks et h smu~lfiti dam h poisie to me. fhninine a2 I'Irhndr contemporaine et How ridiculous it looked, 22e preoccupation with Zrbbness as the prima y floating on the terrain of criticism has disturbing repercussions water between two fbrpoetry, because poems wbicb do not nourish these swans critical concerns are considered as either not who were coaxing reafly I&, or not r e d y poems. one another to love. remeten question I'Pternel&azsomption Although I tried to reach it, chez &S critiques litthaires que hpoksie it was swept away. irlandaise est prioritairement pri-"Sit still in the boat, you fool," ocrupk par &S mythes, I'histoire et she called, "sit still I'identitk nationale et rulturelle. or you'll fall into the river."-Joan McBreen, She told the one "The Straw Hat" who was beyond saving to have a nice day (she said it twice for effect)
On the question of LGBT rights IMR interviews Ailbhe Smyth who has long been at the heart of this... more On the question of LGBT rights IMR interviews Ailbhe Smyth who has long been at the heart of this struggle and who offers us her reflections on how it has developed in Ireland.
... (Some) Feminist reflections on globalization: personal and political. Autores: AilbheSmyth; L... more ... (Some) Feminist reflections on globalization: personal and political. Autores: AilbheSmyth; Localización: Género, ciudadanía y globalización / coord. por Mar Gallego Durán, Vol. 1, 2009, ISBN 978-84-7898-291-2 , págs. 119 ...
Desperately seeking sisterhood: still challenging and …, 1997
Do you ever wonder what they would think if they knew what you think at home alone in your head a... more Do you ever wonder what they would think if they knew what you think at home alone in your head at night as you try to touch the parts of yourself you hate you hide the parts of yourself lost frozen denied the anxieties the fears the betrayals the lies the failures of courage of ...
is a Sydney-based photographer and film-maker. Her films include Nice Coloured Girls and Night Cr... more is a Sydney-based photographer and film-maker. Her films include Nice Coloured Girls and Night Cries, and her publications a photo series, Scarred for Life, in RePublica, issue 3 (1995). She was recently awarded an Australian Council fellowship.
This collection of 16 essays by Irish feminist scholars and activists explores the politics of ab... more This collection of 16 essays by Irish feminist scholars and activists explores the politics of abortion in Ireland and considers its social, ethical and political implications.
������ Each one of these themes is both an entirety unto itself and inextricably linked with the ... more ������ Each one of these themes is both an entirety unto itself and inextricably linked with the others. Each one is freighted and fraught, burdened and bent under a weight of intricately inflected meanings, all complex, often contradictory, and crucial for all of us, diverse though we be, as feminists. I could say that each is crucial to feminist discourse, which is another way of saying not quite the same thing, but I won't, because it's not enough: feminist practice (in which I include feminist thinking) needs real live heart and body and head and soul feminists to challenge and protest and take up the issues and do something about them. BRING BACK POLITICS, and the material, messy world of the everyday, because thAif s where it hurts, in women's bodies and hearts and heads and souls. And thafs what we need to be talking and thinking and doing something about. You think thafs too concrete for Women's Studies? Well, some days I wake up and read the paper, like toda...
n the past, when I went to doctors, psychiatrists, priests and nurses they used to talk down to m... more n the past, when I went to doctors, psychiatrists, priests and nurses they used to talk down to me. Now I have more confidence to talk to them. I also learned that I have views on subjects. I'm getting ambitious and the classes are too slow for me We would like a history class, but there is no accommodation.' Lily Fitzgerald Four years ago, the Commision on Adult Education, in its report Lifelong Learning, 2 recommended that the `important work' already being done in the field of women's education should be further developed. They went on to comment: `In a general way adult education has an important part to play in releasing the potential of women as contributors to all aspects of Irish life, including the economy. It should prompt a growing awareness of women's rights and of the necessity to persevere in securing them'. Unfortunately, the Report failed to develop a critique of existing Adult Education provision for women and offered no recommendations or gu...
This piece was written by invitation as a personal response to It Has No Name , an art exhibition... more This piece was written by invitation as a personal response to It Has No Name , an art exhibition held in Dublin in 2013. In the exhibition, the four artists—Pauline Cummins, Sandra Johnston, Frances Mezzeti, and Dominic Thorpe—explored through live performances the shocking revelations emerging since the early 1990s of widespread and brutal clerical and institutional abuse of children, young people, and women in Ireland.
Some things insist on becoming lost, like the be-ribboned straw hat L hutcure examine &S reprisen... more Some things insist on becoming lost, like the be-ribboned straw hat L hutcure examine &S reprisentations the girl waved over the bridge snnrelks et h smu~lfiti dam h poisie to me. fhninine a2 I'Irhndr contemporaine et How ridiculous it looked, 22e preoccupation with Zrbbness as the prima y floating on the terrain of criticism has disturbing repercussions water between two fbrpoetry, because poems wbicb do not nourish these swans critical concerns are considered as either not who were coaxing reafly I&, or not r e d y poems. one another to love. remeten question I'Pternel&azsomption Although I tried to reach it, chez &S critiques litthaires que hpoksie it was swept away. irlandaise est prioritairement pri-"Sit still in the boat, you fool," ocrupk par &S mythes, I'histoire et she called, "sit still I'identitk nationale et rulturelle. or you'll fall into the river."-Joan McBreen, She told the one "The Straw Hat" who was beyond saving to have a nice day (she said it twice for effect)
On the question of LGBT rights IMR interviews Ailbhe Smyth who has long been at the heart of this... more On the question of LGBT rights IMR interviews Ailbhe Smyth who has long been at the heart of this struggle and who offers us her reflections on how it has developed in Ireland.
... (Some) Feminist reflections on globalization: personal and political. Autores: AilbheSmyth; L... more ... (Some) Feminist reflections on globalization: personal and political. Autores: AilbheSmyth; Localización: Género, ciudadanía y globalización / coord. por Mar Gallego Durán, Vol. 1, 2009, ISBN 978-84-7898-291-2 , págs. 119 ...
Desperately seeking sisterhood: still challenging and …, 1997
Do you ever wonder what they would think if they knew what you think at home alone in your head a... more Do you ever wonder what they would think if they knew what you think at home alone in your head at night as you try to touch the parts of yourself you hate you hide the parts of yourself lost frozen denied the anxieties the fears the betrayals the lies the failures of courage of ...
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