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OverviewWomen's Voices in Ireland examines the letters and problems sent in by women to two Irish women’s magazines in the 1950s and 60s, discussing them within their wider social and historical context. In doing so, it provides a unique insight into one of the few forums for female expression in Ireland during this period. Although in these decades more Irish women than ever before participated in paid work, trade unions and voluntary organizations, their representation in politics and public and their workforce participation remained low. Meanwhile, women who came of age from the late 1950s experienced a freedom which their mothers and aunts - married or single, in the workplace or the home - had never known. Diary and letters pages and problem pages in Irish-produced magazines in the 1950s and 60s enabled women from all walks of life to express their opinions and to seek guidance on the social changes they saw happening around them. This book, by examining these communications, gives a new insight into the history of Irish women, and also contributes to the ongoing debate about what women’s magazines mean for women’s history. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Caitriona Clear (National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland)Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.467kg ISBN: 9781474236683ISBN 10: 1474236685 Pages: 208 Publication Date: 17 December 2015 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsIntroduction: ‘Advice, patterns, etc’: Women, magazines and Ireland in the 1950s and 60s. 1. The Readership and Audience of Woman’s Life 1951-9 2. The problem page in Woman’s Life 1951-9 3. Letters to Woman’s Way 1963-9 Part 1 4. Letters to Woman’s Way Part 2 5. Letters to Woman’s Way Part 3 6. The Problem page in Woman’s Way 1963-9 Part 1 7. Problem page in Woman’s Way Part 2 8. Problem page in Woman’s Way Part 3 Conclusion: Hearing Their Own Names Again IndexReviewsThis well-researched manuscript offers a unique look at Irish lives. Using women's magazines, Clear particularly mines the letters to agony aunts, which reveal the thoughts, concerns and aspirations of mostly urban dwelling young women (and some men). While the Ireland we see in the 1950s is socially conservative, traditionally Catholic and patriarchal, we find that by the 1960s, the island is becoming more urban, less tradition, and more demanding of rights for women. Though Clear recognizes the limitations of her evidence, this book offers a nuanced understanding of women's lives in modern Irish society. With this book, Catriona Clear breaks new ground. Margaret Preston, Augustana College, USA Clear's well-researched book gives an interesting snapshot of a relatively recent repressed time. Irish Examiner This book is successful and significant on a number of levels. It provides a rich and detailed account of popular women's magazines in Ireland in the 1950s and 1960s ... The book also provides a much more nuanced account of social and cultural change in Ireland in these two decades adding much to our understandings of modern Irish history and the lives of Irish women in particular. Clear writes in an accessible manner and the inclusion of images from the magazines and the engaging content ensures that this publication will appeal not only to academics and students of history but also to those who 'never thought they were interested in history at all'. Reviews in History Clear's well-researched book gives an interesting snapshot of a relatively recent repressed time. Irish Examiner This book will be of crucial importance in furthering debates around women’s lives in twentieth century Ireland … and add needed archival richness to debates on women’s lives since partition. * Journal of Contemporary History * Clear's well-researched book gives an interesting snapshot of a relatively recent repressed time. * Irish Examiner * This book is successful and significant on a number of levels. It provides a rich and detailed account of popular women’s magazines in Ireland in the 1950s and 1960s ... The book also provides a much more nuanced account of social and cultural change in Ireland in these two decades adding much to our understandings of modern Irish history and the lives of Irish women in particular. Clear writes in an accessible manner and the inclusion of images from the magazines and the engaging content ensures that this publication will appeal not only to academics and students of history but also to those who ‘never thought they were interested in history at all’. * Reviews in History * Caitriona Clear provides an interesting and interdisciplinary perspective on select women’s magazines at a pivotal time in the country’s history … The volume provides some new insights, linking the readers’ letters, problems pages, and “agony aunts” to a broader women’s history context that complements existing scholarship of Irish press history. * The Journal of Magazine Media * Author InformationCaitriona Clear lectures on European and Irish women’s history, the history of poverty and institutions, general political history, and oral history at the National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland. Her most recent book is Social Change and Everyday Life in Ireland 1850-1922 (2007). 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