In Body Politics, Scheible does significant, meaningful, and successful work tracing and illuminating what is at stake in Ireland's persistent metaphor of gender, nation, and religion.

Estudios Irlandeses

Undeniably an important book, one moreover that never claims to be exhaustive. The strength of Scheible's study lies in the skill and depth of its readings and the clarity with which it shows how the literary text has become a space for working through the contradictions of a cultural inheritance that binds the bodies of Irish women to the nation's fate.

Irish University Review

This is a timely and valuable book. The texts under discussion are well-chosen, the prose is admirably lucid and the analysis is illuminating.

Ailbhe Darcy, Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing, Cardiff University, UK

Overall, this is a useful volume that adds to the critical conversation about female and national identity in Irish fiction by engaging with contemporary literary and commercial texts that have so far gotten comparatively little critical attention

CHOICE

[This] rigorous and compelling work stands as a valuable contribution both to Irish scholarship and feminist literary criticism. Equally significant is its engagement with contemporary debates in migration and transnational studies, as it responds to the urgent need for new, plural, and non-restrictive notions of home, selfhood, and cultural identity.

Studia Philologia