Spring 2003 - University College Cork

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Medicine, Ethics
& the Law
Genteel Revolutionaries
by Deird re Madden
Anna and Thomas Haslam, Pioneers
of Irish Feminism
by Carmel Quinlan
Written by Ireland’s leading medical law academic, this work will comprehensively
cover case-law and regulations regarding the healthcare system,
law relating to human reproduction, ands issues of consent and treatment.
Designed for both lawyers and healthcare professionals this work will
prove an invaluable reference tool for students and those in daily practice.
Dr Deirdre Madden , Barrister-at-Law;
Lecturer in Law, University College Cork.
Anna and Thomas Haslam were born in the
decade before Victoria ascended to the
throne, both into Quaker families. The ethos
of Quakerism was evident in all aspects of
their lives. The couple married in 1854 and
lived well into the twentieth century. This
book is both an exploration of their lives and
a history of the first forty years of feminist
activism in Ireland.
Thomas, an example of a Victorian
polymath, wrote on birth control as early as
1868 and, in the 1870s, on prostitution and
on sexual morality. He published a journal on
female suffrage in 1874 and continued to
write on the subject until his death in 1917
at the age of 92. Genteel Revolutionaries
traces the Haslams’ work for women’s
suffrage from their founding of the Dublin
Women’s Suffrage Association in 1876 to the
granting of the franchise in 1918. It looks at
the campaign for the repeal of the
Contagious Diseases Acts in the 1870s, a
campaign regarded at the time as disgraceful
because ‘ladies’ discussed prostitution and
venereal disease, subjects they should have
known nothing about. Anna was active in
the movement for the education of women
and was also instrumental in winning for
women the right to stand as candidates in
local elections. She was a member of the
International Council of Women from the
1880s. The Haslams corresponded with
leading English intellectuals, including John
Stuart Mill, and with activists such as Marie
Stopes.
Genteel Revolutionaries e x p l o res a world in
which a coterie of like-minded people stro v e
for re f o rm in a law-abiding manner. It re v e a l s
an Ireland where people with religious and
political diff e rences worked together for a
common cause and whose conserv a t i v e
demeanor belied their radical ideals.
Carmel Quinlan is a Post-Doctoral
Research Fellow in the Department of
History, University College Cork and was
formerly co-ordinator of the MA course in
Women’s Studies.
Publisher: Cork University Press
(www.corkuniversitypress.com)
Price: Cloth €57.25
Pleiades Setting
edited by Keith Sidwell
Pleiades Setting is a collection of essays put together for the occasion of
the retirement of Statutory Lecturer, Dr Pat Cronin, Ancient Classics.
Contributors to this special volume are members of the Department of
Ancient Classics, UCC.
John Barry - Stanihurst and the ethnographic tradition
Margaret Buckley - Atticus, Man of Letters, Revisited
Chris Gaynor - Community and leadership in the writings of Isocrates
Noreen Humble - The limits of biography: the case of Xenophon
Carmel McCallum-Barry - Ovid at the end of the world
Keith Sidwell - Damning with great praise: paradox in Lucian’s Imagines
and Pro Imaginibus
David Wood - Ammianus and the blood-sucking Saracen
Publisher: Butterworths (Ireland)
Ltd (http://www.butterworths.ie)
Price: €120
Publisher: Department of Ancient Classics, UCC
Price: €5
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