Harford, Judith and Redmond, Jennifer
(2019)
‘I am amazed at how easily we accepted it’:
the marriage ban, teaching and ideologies of
womanhood in post-Independence Ireland.
Gender and Education.
ISSN 0954-0253
Abstract
This article examines the perspectives of 14 primary school teachers
subjected to a marriage ban in Ireland between 1932 and 1958. This
oral history study provides a unique platform to examine the
construction and articulation of these women’s historical
memories. Interrogating their perspectives on the marriage ban
provides an important window into the social and cultural world
in which they lived, the norms and dominant values they
encountered, and the ways in which they negotiated their own
individual consciousness within a specific cultural framework.
Specifically, the analysis of these women’s testimony generates
significant insights into the gendering of teaching as a suitable
profession for women in early twentieth-century Ireland; how
gender shaped social and cultural roles; Church control over
women’s training and employment; and the use of policy to
deepen women’s social and economic subordination.
| Item Type: |
Article
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| Keywords: |
Marriage ban; women
teachers; primary schooling;
Ireland; |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Arts & Humanities > History |
| Item ID: |
12975 |
| Identification Number: |
https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2019.1680807 |
| Depositing User: |
Jennifer Redmond
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| Date Deposited: |
21 May 2020 11:44 |
| Journal or Publication Title: |
Gender and Education |
| Publisher: |
Routledge |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
| URI: |
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| Use Licence: |
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