Acknowledgments
Notes on contributors
Introduction: emergent strands or theory on edge? / Margrit Shildrick
Politics
The politics of sexual difference : the enduring influence of the Catholic Church / Ivana Bacik
Rethinking the Armagh women's dirty protest / Paula Burns
The state, women and Irish abortion policy, 1983-2010 / Sandra McAvoy
Irish migration and Irish sexuality scholarship : queering the connections / Eithne LuibhÊid
Affecting trans-feminist solidarity / Breda Gray
Wonderful documents and male begrudgery : post-conflict reconstruction in Northern Ireland / Margaret Ward
Pride, politics, and the right to perform : negotiating civil partnership in Ireland / Fintan Walsh
Culture
Race, sex and nation / Gerardine Meaney
Outside-in and the places in-between : feminist community higher education / Aideen Quilty
"Watch your language" : speculative theory and the poetry of Rita Ann Higgins / Moynagh Sullivan
Knowing the landscape : navigating the language : Chinese women's experience of arrival in Ireland / Edith Shillue
Enjoying substance : psychoanalysis, literature and Joyce's writing of women / Olga Cox Cameron
Culture on the edge : the postfeminist challenge / Debbie Ging
A cure for melancholia? : queer sons, dead mothers and the fantasy of multiculturalism in McCabe's and Jordan's breakfast on Pluto(s) / Anne Mulhall
Quare theory / Noreen Giffney
Interview with Ailbhe Smyth / Bedb Ruane.
Theory on the edge : Irish studies and the politics of sexual difference. ISBN 9781137306975. Published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2013. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.