Abstract

A second wave of feminism consolidated in Ireland in the 1970s and has lasted for over three decades. This part of the book provides an empirical analysis of the contemporary women’s movement, over the following stages of transformation: (1) a period of rapid advancement, at the level of national women’s organisations and networks, through the example of the CSW (developed here in Chapter 3); (2) a parallel expansion of grass-roots radical activism, notable in the emergence of the vociferous Irish Women’s Liberation Movement (Chapter 4) and, later, Irish Women United (Chapter 5), in the 1970s; (3) the re-appraisal of the established women’s movement from within, which occurred during the 1980s (Chapter 6); and (4) new directions posed in the mobilisation of women in the community sector and the consolidation of women’s studies, from the 1980s and into the 1990s (Chapter 7 in Part III).KeywordsSocial MovementIrish WomanIrish SocietyPolitical Opportunity StructurePolitical LobbyingThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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