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Beyond Resistance: Azalais d'Altier, Christine de Pizan, and the "Good" Female Reader of Briseida
Gender, Nationality and Cultural Representations of Ireland: An Irish Woman's Place?
Ireland has struggled with its âfeminineâ identity throughout its history. The so-called âchasmic dichotomy of male and female' is embedded in colonial and postcolonial constructions of Irishness and it continues to manifest itself in contemporary cultural representations of Ireland and Irishness. This study explores issues of gender and nationality via a reading of a 70-second television advertisement for Caffrey's Irish Ale, titled âNew Yorkâ. The article suggests that, although colonial and postcolonial discourse on Ireland continues to perceive the âfeminineâ in problematic terms, this is gradually changing as Irish women increasingly, in poet Eavan Boland's words, âopen a window on those silences, those false pastorals, those ornamental reductionsâ that have confined us