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Ex-Combatants, Gender and Peace in Northern Ireland: Women, Political Protest and the Prison Experience
Azrini Wahidin
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Description for Ex-Combatants, Gender and Peace in Northern Ireland: Women, Political Protest and the Prison Experience
Hardback. Series: Palgrave Studies in Compromise After Conflict. Num Pages: 270 pages, 3 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: GTJ; JFSJ; JKVM; JKVP; JPWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 219 x 20. Weight in Grams: 482.
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, ... Read more
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Series
Palgrave Studies in Compromise After Conflict
Number of Pages
253
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137363299
SKU
V9781137363299
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About Azrini Wahidin
Azrini Wahidin is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Nottingham Trent University, UK. She is on the Executive Committee of the British Society of Criminology and is Chair of the Professional Affairs and Ethics Committee. She has held visiting posts at Melbourne University, University of Sydney, Middle Tennessee State University and the University of Malaya.
Reviews for Ex-Combatants, Gender and Peace in Northern Ireland: Women, Political Protest and the Prison Experience
In Ex-Combatants, Gender and Peace in Northern Ireland, Wahidin uses interviews to expose the intimate and poignant accounts of the prison experience through a gendered lens. ... It is a must-read to understand the integral role that female combatants had during the conflict and that female ex-combatants must have during social transformation for a solid and lasting peace. Wahidin's work ... Read more