Shattering Silence Women, Nationalism, and Political Subjectivity in Northern Ireland

Name: Shattering Silence Women, Nationalism, and Political Subjectivity in Northern Ireland
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ISBN: 9780691037547

ISBN-10: 069103754X

ISBN-13: 9780691037547

Edition: 1998

Authors: Begoï¿½a Aretxaga, Begoï¿½a Aretxaga

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This book, the first feminist ethnography of the violence in Northern Ireland, is an analysis of a political conflict through the lens of gender. The case in point is the working-class Catholic resistance to British rule in Northern Ireland. During the 1970s women in Catholic/nationalist districts of Belfast organized themselves into street committees and led popular forms of resistance against the policies of the government of Northern Ireland and, after its demise, against those of the British. In the abundant literature on the conflict, however, the political tactics of nationalist women have passed virtually unnoticed. Begoa Aretxaga argues here that these hitherto invisible practices…

Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 10/5/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.22" wide x 9.21" long x 0.52" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Preface



Opening the Space of Interpretation



Catholic West Belfast: A Sense of Place



Gender Trouble and the Transformation of Consciousness



The Ritual Politics of Historical Legitimacy



The Gendered Politics of Suffering: Women of the RAC



The Power of Sexual Difference: Armagh Women



En-Gendering a Nation


Afterword


Notes


References


Index