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Introduction Introduction
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Religious Reform and Gender Before the Famine Religious Reform and Gender Before the Famine
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Regulating Marriage and Sexual Relations Regulating Marriage and Sexual Relations
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The Triumph of Respectability After the Famine The Triumph of Respectability After the Famine
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Politics, Suffrage, and the National Question Politics, Suffrage, and the National Question
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Conclusion Conclusion
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References References
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Suggested Reading Suggested Reading
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8 Religion, Gender, and Sexuality in Ireland, 1800–1922
Get accessMyrtle Hill is a Visiting Research Fellow in the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy, and Politics in Queen’s University Belfast, where she was formerly a Senior Lecturer and Director of the Centre for Women’s Studies. She has published widely on Irish women’s religious and social history, with many book chapters and articles on the Irish suffrage movement, nineteenth-century female missionaries, Ireland and Empire, and disability and conflict. She is active in the wider women’s and community relations sectors in the north of Ireland.
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Published:22 February 2024
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Abstract
This chapter explores how transformations within religious institutions impacted on public and popular perceptions of gender and sexuality. In assessing the ways in which traditional views were simultaneously reinforced and challenged, this analysis considers both formal and popular expressions of religiosity, the gap between rhetoric and reality and the diversity of individual experiences, always with the caveat that much in this area of intimacy remains unrecorded. The historiography of the period mainly highlights the extent to which religious pressure restricted and controlled female behaviour, and there is much evidence to bolster the familiar picture of Irish sexual repression. However, a more rounded and complex picture emerges from this study, which reflects the multifaceted nature of personal and social behaviours and responses to the changing religious context.
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