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Record Nr.

UNINA9910137138903321

Autore

Wahidin Azrini

Titolo

Ex-Combatants, Gender and Peace in Northern Ireland : Women, Political Protest and the Prison Experience / / by Azrini Wahidin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016

ISBN

1-137-36330-4

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVII, 253 p.)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Compromise after Conflict

Disciplina

364

Soggetti

Crime—Sociological aspects

Corrections

Punishment

Sociology

Organized crime

Terrorism

Political violence

Peace

Crime and Society

Prison and Punishment

Gender Studies

Organized Crime

Terrorism and Political Violence

Peace Studies

History

Northern Ireland

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.