Regulating sexuality

McCormick, Leanne

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“…93 It appears that the Belfast patrol was more closely connected with rescue societies than its Dublin counterpart. 94 Leanne McCormick has explored these 'close connections between rescue and reform work' in the Belfast patrol, and argued that this association could be seen in the I.W.P's personnel: a Miss Curran of the Belfast I.W.P., for example, had been involved in the Church of Ireland Rescue League before the war. 95 It is difficult to know, however, how typical she was of the broader membership as constructing sociological profiles of I.W.P.…”

Section: Pašeta -'Waging War On the Streets': The Irish Women Patrolmentioning

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‘Waging War on the Streets’: the Irish Women Patrol, 1914–22.

Pašeta

2014

Ir. Hist. Stud.

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Female activists across the United Kingdom had insisted from the late nineteenth century that the employment of women police who would deal with problems specific to women and children could help to address pressing social questions, or at least to offer women some protection within the entirely male criminal justice system. Their campaign for women police was connected to similar demands for the employment of female prison visitors and inspectors and, later, jurors and lawyers, and it was predicated on the idea that neither prisons nor courts afforded women fair and equal treatment under the law. Early victories included the appointment of police matrons and searchers, but the resistance of police authorities and most other civil servants to female officers remained solid into the early twentieth century, feminist campaigning notwithstanding. The outbreak of the First World War, however, provided an ideal context for renewed activism on the issue, not least because commentators across the British Isles predicted that the apparent inability of girls and young women to resist the lure of uniformed men would lead to outbreaks of war-induced sexual promiscuity and a decline in standards of public behaviour.

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Section: Pašeta -'Waging War On the Streets': The Irish Women Patrolmentioning

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‘Waging War on the Streets’: the Irish Women Patrol, 1914–22.

Pašeta

2014

Ir. Hist. Stud.

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“…37 From an organizational point of view, however, there seems to have been little co-operation across the sectarian divide. The increasing physical presence of the Catholic church and its related orders in Belfast undoubtedly heightened Protestant suspicions and, in some cases, hostility towards its growing influence in the city, while the very pro-active role of Protestant missionaries and charity workers in visiting houses and using public space for open-air meetings was regarded with similar suspicion and hostility by sections of the Catholic church who saw in it attempts to proselytize and thus undermine the authority of the church.…”

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Surviving the industrial city: the female poor and the workhouse in late nineteenth-century Belfast

Purdue¹

2016

Urban History

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In common with many British cities, but unlike the rest of Ireland, late nineteenth-century Belfast experienced rapid industrialization and physical expansion. Women formed a significant proportion of the city's workforce, attracted by the employment opportunities represented in the burgeoning textile industry.Many of them were economically vulnerable, however, and could find themselves destitute for a number of reasons. This article sets Belfast's Poor Law workhouse in the landscape of welfare in the city, exploring how its use reflected the development of the city and the ways in which the female poor engaged with it in order to survive.In May 2010, a life-sized cast bronze statue of a young female millworker was unveiled on the corner of Cambrai Street and Crumlin Road in north Belfast. The statue, affectionately known as 'Millie', was deliberately located just off the Crumlin Road in what was one of the poorest parts of the city next to the Brookfield Mill and close to where three other major spinning mills once stood, and has been billed as a 'celebration of the contribution that Belfast's female mill-workers made to the city's success'. 1 Several years earlier, a statute of two bronze female figures, Monument to the Unknown Female Worker, was erected in Belfast city centre as a tribute to the city's poorest workers, those women whose grinding labour had contributed so much to the city's economic prosperity but yet had been forced to draw on a range of strategies in order to survive. 2 2 Each of these pieces of public art stands as a permanent reminder of the reality of the economic precariousness, poverty and destitution faced by the tens of thousands of women who flocked to Belfast in search of work during the late nineteenth century. Most found employment in the city's linen mills; others resorted to a wide variety of strategies for survival. All were vulnerable to poverty, sickness and destitution, many struggled and sometimes failed to achieve economic independence and often existed on the margins of society. Even for those in employment, there was no guarantee that work would continue to be available and often no economic safety net if it did not. The development of welfare in the city was, therefore, of crucial importance to those who sought relief, in some cases, providing short-term shelter in a crisis, in others, providing a more long-term solution. While, in common with most Irish and British cities, philanthropic organizations proliferated throughout the nineteenth century, the landscape of welfare provision was dominated by the workhouse set up under the Irish Poor Law of 1838. In a city facing the social challenges presented by rapid industrialization and inward migration, overlaid with communal tensions and sectarian division, the provision of welfare presented particular challenges. This article will examine the ways in which the particular growth of Belfast contributed to social problems and shaped its welfare provision before going on to explore the importance of the workhouse fo...

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Queering family history and the lives of Irish men before gay liberation

Hulme

2024

The History of the Family

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Regulating sexuality

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‘Waging War on the Streets’: the Irish Women Patrol, 1914–22.

‘Waging War on the Streets’: the Irish Women Patrol, 1914–22.

Surviving the industrial city: the female poor and the workhouse in late nineteenth-century Belfast

Queering family history and the lives of Irish men before gay liberation

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