TY - JOUR
T1 - Contemporary Feminist Protest in Ireland
T2 - #Me Too in Irish Theatre
AU - Fitzpatrick, L
PY - 2020/5/31
Y1 - 2020/5/31
N2 - This essay draws upon the work of Judith Butler, Sara Ahmed, and Germaine Greer to consider the #MeToo movement and its reflection in the work of the author's students and the scandal at Dublin's Gate Theatre. Taking competing conceptions of freedom as they are materialised in this activism as it starting point, the essay questions intergenerational feminist ideas about the nature of freedom and its relationship to fear and to harassment. The essay returns to the feminist principle that ‘the personal is the political’ to reflect on women's lived experiences of threat and harassment, and young women's resistance to their objectification.
AB - This essay draws upon the work of Judith Butler, Sara Ahmed, and Germaine Greer to consider the #MeToo movement and its reflection in the work of the author's students and the scandal at Dublin's Gate Theatre. Taking competing conceptions of freedom as they are materialised in this activism as it starting point, the essay questions intergenerational feminist ideas about the nature of freedom and its relationship to fear and to harassment. The essay returns to the feminist principle that ‘the personal is the political’ to reflect on women's lived experiences of threat and harassment, and young women's resistance to their objectification.
KW - Freedom
KW - Activism
KW - Feminism
KW - Irish theatre
UR - https://pure.ulster.ac.uk/en/publications/contemporary-feminist-protest-in-ireland-me-too-in-irish-theatre
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85086119306&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3366/iur.2020.0436
DO - 10.3366/iur.2020.0436
M3 - Article
SN - 0021-1427
VL - 50
SP - 82
EP - 93
JO - Irish University Review
JF - Irish University Review
IS - 1
ER -