Women, Policing, and Resistance in Northern Ireland

by Sharon Pickering

A rich and varied collection of interviews which present women's reflections on the policing of events from the civil rights marches of the late 1960s right up to the post-ceasefire period of the 1990s, drawing out the specific strategies used by the police and military to intimidate and humiliate women, strategies that typically involved sexual threat and innuendo. She also describes how women used their tongues as their greatest weapon in defying...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1900960206
• ISBN13: 9781900960205
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Beyond Pale Publications
• Length: 214 Pages