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Creative Women in Ireland: Not Your Muse

Creative Women in Ireland: Not Your Muse The Journal of ar Ts ManageMenT , ,lwa and socie Ty Book Review Creative Women in Ireland: Not Your Muse, by Aileen o ’Driscoll, New York and London, Routledge, 2023, 112 pp., $47.96, iSBN: 9780367534486 Aileen O’Driscoll’s (2023) Creative Women in Ireland: Not Your Muse is a wide-ranging work that provides a journey through the lives of ten creative Irish women, who were interviewed as the basis of this study, with a view to examining their experiences as artists and how creativity and gender have shaped those experiences. The book begins with an examination of what it means to be creative, and historical perceptions of creativity and artistry, discussing the historical concept that art was con- sidered a masculine realm (2023, 6–13) noting specifically how women’s artistic practice has often been relegated to sidelines, viewed as ‘crafts’ or merely the efforts of domestic labor (2023, 7) and not ‘true’ or ‘high art. O’Driscoll also makes note of how this attitude is still, lamentably, present, citing the relative lack of scholarly attention given to women’s creativity (2023, 10–11). The subsequent three chapters are structured around interviews with ten creative Irish women whose work spans a variety of different artistic practices http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Journal of Arts Management Law and Society Taylor & Francis

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Taylor & Francis
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1930-7799
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10.1080/10632921.2023.2215462
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The Journal of ar Ts ManageMenT , ,lwa and socie Ty Book Review Creative Women in Ireland: Not Your Muse, by Aileen o ’Driscoll, New York and London, Routledge, 2023, 112 pp., $47.96, iSBN: 9780367534486 Aileen O’Driscoll’s (2023) Creative Women in Ireland: Not Your Muse is a wide-ranging work that provides a journey through the lives of ten creative Irish women, who were interviewed as the basis of this study, with a view to examining their experiences as artists and how creativity and gender have shaped those experiences. The book begins with an examination of what it means to be creative, and historical perceptions of creativity and artistry, discussing the historical concept that art was con- sidered a masculine realm (2023, 6–13) noting specifically how women’s artistic practice has often been relegated to sidelines, viewed as ‘crafts’ or merely the efforts of domestic labor (2023, 7) and not ‘true’ or ‘high art. O’Driscoll also makes note of how this attitude is still, lamentably, present, citing the relative lack of scholarly attention given to women’s creativity (2023, 10–11). The subsequent three chapters are structured around interviews with ten creative Irish women whose work spans a variety of different artistic practices

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Published: Jul 4, 2023

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