Foster, Modern Ireland, 1600–1972 (London: Penguin Books, 1989), p. Fitzgerald (Dublin and London: Virtue and Co. Susan Mitchell, “The Petticoat in Politics,” in The Voice of Ireland, ed. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors.
This view, however, was not one that was native to Ireland rather, it had its roots in the colonial era, as English, then Irish, leaders sought to forge images of women that would serve male leaders’ political agenda. Mitchell’s concern that women were seen as gendered beings and not rational individuals was a reaction to the existing political ideology that depicted women as frivolous, weak, and helpless. Thus should woman move graciously to her place in Irish politics for only when the petticoat goes out of politics can the Woman come in. But they might find in it a clue to the wider understanding of each other’s nature. As men and women working together, they need not attempt the impossible in trying to efface sex, nor the unnecessary in insisting on it. Women would come into the game, not to herd together and fight in a feminine corner, to triumph over man and force a petticoat government on him not to use their sex as a weapon to fight sex, or as a lure to snare it. The entrance there, not of two or three, but of two or three hundred women partners, might take the game into wider fields and fresher airs, broadening the humanity of Government.
Men playing alone at their moss-grown games of politics have made a mess of human society.
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