The Feminization of Famine: Enlargin the Inquiry
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2595-8127.v1i1p17-19Keywords:
Famine, Feminization, Margaret KelleherAbstract
There is much to praise in Margaret Kelleher’s The Feminization of Famine. Expressions of the Inexpressible? (1997). Her book is a bold new analysis of the contemporary evidence about the Irish Great Famine of 1845-9. She has examined the visual and verbal images of famine to discover a pattern of female imagery; she has subjected that pattern to a critical analysis, and she has concluded that images of female suffering carry helplessness and hopelessness in their meaning reinforcing the attitude that women are unable to help themselves in such crises.
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