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

by Begoña Aretxaga

Book Overview

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 of Belfast organized themselves into street committees and led popular forms of resistance against the policies of the government of Northern Ireland...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069103754X
• ISBN13: 9780691037547
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"