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 Thursday November 13, 2003 14:02 by Mary Muldowney - TCD History Department muldownm at tcd dot ie 087 798 8330
 Introductions needed to women who travelled from Northern Ireland to work in the U.K. during the Second World War. I’m completing a Ph.D. thesis on the impact of the Second World War on women in Dublin and Belfast using oral history interviews as the basis for my research. These interviews are with so-called ‘ordinary women’, whose experiences have generally been omitted from the writing of history. Until relatively recently, the gender division of social roles had a largely negative impact on the writing of history because it contributed to the invisibility of women, who were not considered to have played a significant part in the shaping of events. This was especially true of women who worked outside their homes, because the workplace was designated as a masculine sphere in which class issues were defined by the perception of the male worker as breadwinner. |
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Jump To Comment: 1Might be also worth posting this query to the irish labour history list, link below