Famine et émigration au féminin : spécificités et crise des représentations
Since the 1980s historians have focused on the specificity of female Irish emigration. Women were proportionally more numerous among Irish immigrants in the United States than in other ethnic groups, and they included a higher proportion of single women. If some availed themselves of assisted emigra...
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| Language: | English |
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Centre de Recherche et d'Etudes en Civilisation Britannique
2014-09-01
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| Series: | Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique |
| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/rfcb/273 |
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| Summary: | Since the 1980s historians have focused on the specificity of female Irish emigration. Women were proportionally more numerous among Irish immigrants in the United States than in other ethnic groups, and they included a higher proportion of single women. If some availed themselves of assisted emigration schemes, the conditions led many single mothers to abandon their children. The archives of the Irish Folklore Commission help to better understand the situation of Irish women emigrants, despite the problematic nature of some tales. It may be linked to the scale of the Great Famine, the horror of which was impossible to express, and the symbolic dimension of womanhood and motherhood may have been used to say what could not be represented. |
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| ISSN: | 0248-9015 2429-4373 |