Feminist Identity Development and Activism in Revolutionary Movements

Theresa O'Keefe is Assistant Lecturer in Sociology at the National University of Ireland Maynooth.

• 1. Rethinking Women and Nationalism 2. Women's Troubles: Gender, Violence and the State 3. A Woman's Place is in the Armed Struggle? 4. The Mini-skirt Brigade: Distorting Women's Participation in Armed Conflict 5. The Rousing of Republican Feminism. . . 6. Reformation Versus Revolution? Feminist Genealogies in Conflict

“The aim of the book is to show how feministidentity development and nationalism can be interlinked. … as a contribution tothe bodies of literature on conflict and peace studies, gender studies, theoryon nationalism and critical social movement theory, this book supplies thediscourse of ‘women in war” with a fresh disrupting of the boundariesconstructed around the representation of women in armed conflict.” (AnnetteBehrens, Interface, Vol. 7 (2), November, 2015)