Mary Cullen, Nellie Curtin – Is Hysteria a Feminist Response or is Feminism an Expression of Hysteria
 
THE LETTER 03 (Spring 1995) pages 67-75
 
To begin with, I wish to highlight some of the issues relevant to womens’ lives in Ireland today, and I speak from a feminist perspective, or perhaps I should say, a hysterical position! In the last few decades Ireland has changed beyond recognition. We have moved from a largely rural and traditional society to a largely modern and urban one. The shift has been so great within such a short period of time, a single generation, from the 1950s to the 1980s, that Ireland has been considered unique within the history of family studies, a point noted in a recent ESRI...