1st Edition

Women Divided Gender, Religion and Politics in Northern Ireland

By Rosemary Sales Copyright 1997
252 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

The ongoing Irish peace process has renewed interest in the current social and political problems of Northern Ireland. In bringing together the issues of gender and inequality, Women Divided, a title in the International Studies of Women and Place series, offers new perspectives on women's rights and contemporary political issues. Women Divided argues that religious and political sectarianism in... Read more
List of tables, Glossary, Acknowledgements, Maps, 1 INTRODUCTION, 2 THE RISE AND FALL OF STORMONT, 3 EXPLAINING THE CONFLICT, 4 BRITISH POLICY UNDER DIRECT RULE, 5 SOCIAL POLICY AND SOCIAL DIVISIONS, 6 EMPLOYMENT INEQUALITY IN THE 1990s, 7 ENGENDERING CHANGE, 8 WOMEN AND THE ‘PEACE PROCESS’, Notes, Bibliography, Index

Biography

Rosemary Sales is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy, Middlesex University.