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Ex-Combatants, Gender and Peace in Northern Ireland

Women, Political Protest and the Prison Experience

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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This book explores the contours of women's involvement in the Irish Republican Army, political protest and the prison experience in Northern Ireland. Through the voices of female and male combatants, it demonstrates that women remained marginal in the examination of imprisonment during the Conflict and in the negotiated peace process. However, the book shows that women performed a number of roles in war and peace that placed constructions of femininity in dissent.Azrini Wahidin argues that the role of the female combatant is not given but ambiguous. She indicates that a tension exists between different conceptualisations of societal security, where female combatants both fought against societal insecurity posed by the state and contributed to internal societal dissonance within their ethno-national groups. This book tackles the lacunae that has created a disturbing silence and an absence of a comprehensive understanding of women combatants, which includes knowledge of their motivations, roles and experiences. It will be of particular interest to scholars of criminology, politics and peace studies.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2016-09-14
Mått148 x 210 x 20 mm
Vikt482 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SeriePalgrave Studies in Compromise after Conflict
Antal sidor253
Upplaga16001
FörlagPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN9781137363299

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Chapter 1. Women, War and Peace.- Chapter 2. An Cogadh Fada: The Legacy of Conflict in Northern Ireland.- Chapter 3. The Role of the Accidental Activist.- Chapter 4. From Footnote Soldiers to Frontline Soldiers.- Chapter 5. An Scéal o Príosún Ard Mhacha: Armagh Prison.- Chapter 6. Nor Meekly Serve My Time: 'A' Company Armagh.- Chapter 7. Parthas Caillte: The Politics of Resistance and the Role of the Gendered Incarcerated Body.- Chapter 8. Scéal Phríosún Ard Mhacha: The History of Strip Searching in Armagh.- Chapter 9. 'There is No Glory in Any War'. Conclusion. Compromise After Conflict: Making Peace with the Past.

“In Ex-Combatants, Gender and Peace in Northern Ireland, Wahidin uses interviews to expose the intimate and poignant accounts of the prison experience through a gendered lens. … It is a must-read to understand the integral role that female combatants had during the conflict and that female ex-combatants must have during social transformation for a solid and lasting peace. Wahidin’s work is a seminal text that should be read by everyone studying post-conflict reconstruction and peace-building.” (Ashleigh McFeeters, LSE, blogs.lse.ac.uk, February, 2017)