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Mondays at Gaj's: The Story of the Irish Women's Liberation Movement
Annie Stopper
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Description for Mondays at Gaj's: The Story of the Irish Women's Liberation Movement
paperback. V. rare. From the library of June Levine and Ivor Browne. Good clean copy. Covers showing light shelf wear. Stamp on half title otherwise text is crisp and clear and remains a very good copy
"Monday's at Gaj's" traces the lives of a fascinating group of women who founded Ireland's first radical women's rights organisation - the Irish Women's Liberation Movement. Gaj's was the Baggot Street restaurant, now closed, where the IWLM, as well as other activists, poets other people on the margins, met every Monday night. When the group formed in 1970, the marriage bar was in place, contraception was illegal and women's issues were just beginning to be debated publicly. The women who formed the IWLM - Mairin de Burca, Mary Maher, Nell McCafferty, Rosita Sweetman and Mary Kenny, to name but a ... Read more
"Monday's at Gaj's" traces the lives of a fascinating group of women who founded Ireland's first radical women's rights organisation - the Irish Women's Liberation Movement. Gaj's was the Baggot Street restaurant, now closed, where the IWLM, as well as other activists, poets other people on the margins, met every Monday night. When the group formed in 1970, the marriage bar was in place, contraception was illegal and women's issues were just beginning to be debated publicly. The women who formed the IWLM - Mairin de Burca, Mary Maher, Nell McCafferty, Rosita Sweetman and Mary Kenny, to name but a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
The Liffey Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
265
Place of Publication
Dublin, Ireland
ISBN
9781904148944
SKU
KSG0031461
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Annie Stopper
Anne Stopper is a journalist and former Fulbright Scholar to Ireland who divides her time between the United States and Ireland. She has had numerous articles and stories published in newspapers and magazines in the US and worked in broadcast for National Public Radio's flagship news programme, "Morning Edition".
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