1st Edition
Female Combatants after Armed Struggle Lost in Transition?
By Niall Gilmartin
Copyright 2019
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book stems from a simple ‘feminist curiosity’ that can be succinctly summed up into a single question: what happens to combatant women after the war? Based on in-depth interviews with 40 research participants, mostly former combatants within the Irish Republican Army (IRA), this book offers a critical exploration of republican women and conflict transition in the North of Ireland.... Read more
Foreword by Cynthia Enloe. 1. Introduction 2. Who Fought the War? The Gendered Constructions of Soldiering Roles in Post-War Commemorative Processes 3. Gendering the Post-Conflict Narrative 4. From the Front-lines of War to the Side-Lines of Peace? Republican Women and the Irish Peace Process 5. Beyond Regression: Change and Continuity in Women’s Post-War Activism 6. Conclusion
Biography
Niall Gilmartin is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology, University of Dublin, Trinity College, Ireland.
