Ex-Combatants, Gender and Peace in Northern Ireland : Women, Political Protest and the Prison Experience.
Wahidin, Azrini, author.
2016
HV9649.N67 W34 2016eb
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Title Ex-Combatants, Gender and Peace in Northern Ireland : Women, Political Protest and the Prison Experience.
Author Wahidin, Azrini, author.
ISBN 9781137363299
1137363290
9781137363305
1137363304
Publication Details New York : Palgrave Macmillan 2016 Secaucus : Springer [distributor]
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xvii, 253 pages) : illustrations.
Item Number 9781137363299
Call Number HV9649.N67 W34 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 941.60820082
Summary Annotation 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.
Note Annotation 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.
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Audience Trade Palgrave Macmillan.
Series Palgrave Studies in Compromise after Conflict Ser.
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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.

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