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This book offers a detailed engagement between the French philosopher Jacques Derrida and the contemporary Irish author Paul Howard, aka Ross O'Carroll-Kelly. The book offers insightful analyses of Derrida's deconstructive theory with all its concepts, non-concepts and neologisms, thus showing how they can be used in order to provide a critique of the socio-linguistic realm of Howard's fictional series. Through his work, Howard set in ink a depiction of Ireland, and specifically Dublin, throughout the Celtic Tiger era and its aftermath. The book promotes a dialogue between Derrida and Howard in order to cultivate a succinct and accessible overview of critical theory

"This edited collection of essays brings together discussions on the role, representation and perception of women from the early 1900s to the present day. Each of the chapters are strong on the diverse ways in which gender and radical discrimination are rooted within topics like, education, media, literature, sex and culture. The innovative and originality of this book dwells within the fact that the essays are written by women on the topic of women, giving the collection an all-female narrative and space"--