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

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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 o...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Aretxaga, Begoña (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1997.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
1968-1998
Women > Political activity > Northern Ireland > Belfast.
Women political activists > Northern Ireland > Belfast.
Nationalism > Northern Ireland.
Femmes > Activité politique > Irlande du Nord > Belfast.
Femmes activistes > Irlande du Nord > Belfast.
Nationalisme > Irlande du Nord.
Politics and government
Women > Political activity
Women political activists
Nationalism
Stadtteilarbeit
Soziale Rolle
Geschlechterforschung
Frau
Feminismus
Bewaffneter Konflikt
Frau > Soziale Rolle.
Northern Ireland > Politics and government > 1968-1998.
Belfast (Northern Ireland) > Politics and government.
Irlande du Nord > Politique et gouvernement > 1968-1998.
Northern Ireland > Belfast
Northern Ireland
Nordirland
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1: Opening the Space of Interpretation
  • Chapter 2: Catholic West Belfast: A Sense of Place
  • Chapter 3: Gender Trouble and the Transformation of Consciousness
  • Chapter 4: The Ritual Politics of Historical Legitimacy
  • Chapter 5: The Gendered Politics of Suffering: Women of the RAC
  • Chapter 6: The Power of Sexual Difference: Armagh Women
  • Chapter 7: En-Gendering a Nation
  • Afterword
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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