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Feminism in Ireland has had to contend with a set of issues that are specific to the Irish experience. Discuss.
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Feminism in Ireland has had to contend with a set of issues that are specific to the Irish experience. Discuss. It is often said now, that Ireland is a "modern European state". Men and women are legally equal; through European equality legislation this must be the case. However, Ireland's history has had quite a bleak story to tell about women. In this essay, that history will be traced. The struggle women undertook in order to be allowed to vote, the female war for independence alongside the more publicised male effort and the constitutional frailties that still exist will all be described in the essay. The contemporary women's movement will also be discussed, taking in issues such as contraception, divorce, abortion and working rights, which preoccupied women in post-revolutionary Ireland. These problems, although prominent in all Western countries at the time, had particular relevance for Irish women and in many cases were...
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