![]() They’re just plain brilliant with language. ![]() The Irish are enviably witty and imaginative. The journalist Christopher Caldwell said in The American Spectator: ‘Whoredom in Kimmage is an exquisitely funny book-and it is the only funny feminist book.’ I can’t say whether it was the only funny one, but I can say that the humor in the book is due far more to the people I wrote about than it is to me. The humor and verve and linguistic brilliance of the people who appear in that book is certainly not outdated. “But the work for gender equality isn’t entirely over, and the book still has relevance in a historical sense and as a background to everything that’s happened in the course of one generation. ![]() “I’m delighted that Irish society has changed enough over the past 25 years that my investigation into Irish society in the early ’90s is not so pressingly relevant,” she opined. I wanted to know how she felt that book has held up over the years since its publication in 1993? Mahoney’s "Whoredom in Kimmage" was really the first book about the rise of Irish feminism with the election of President Robinson. ![]()
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