Normal view MARC view ISBD view

Female Combatants after Armed Struggle : Lost in Transition? / by Niall Gilmartin.

By: Gilmartin, Niall [author.]Contributor(s): Taylor and FrancisMaterial type: Text

TextSeries: Routledge Studies in Gender and Global PoliticsPublisher: Boca Raton, FL : Routledge, [2018]Copyright date: ©2019Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource (208 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781315227696(e-book : PDF)Subject(s): POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory | POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General | Women in combat -- Ireland | Women -- Ireland -- Social conditions | Gender identity -- Political aspects | Conflict management | Peace -- Study and teachingGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version: : No titleLOC classification: HQ1236.5.I73Online resources: Click here to view Also available in print format.

Contents:

Foreword by Cynthia Enloe1. Introduction2. Who Fought the War? The Gendered Constructions of Soldiering Roles in Post-War Commemorative Processes3. Gendering the Post-Conflict Narrative 4. From the Front-lines of War to the Side-Lines of Peace? Republican Women and the Irish Peace Process5. Beyond Regression: Change and Continuity in Womens Post-War Activism6. Conclusion.

Abstract: This book stems from a simple 'feminist curiosity' that can be succinctly summed up into a single question: what happens to combatant women after the war? Based on in-depth interviews with40 research participants, mostly former combatants within the Irish Republican Army (IRA), this book offers a critical exploration of republican women and conflict transition in the North of Ireland.Drawing on the feminist theory of a continuum of violence, this book finds that the dichotomous separation of war and peace within conventional approaches represents a gendered fiction. Despite undertaking wartime roles that were empowering, agentic, and subversive, this book finds that the 'post-conflict moment' as experienced by female combatants represents not peace and security, but a continuity of gender discrimination, violence, injustice, and insecurity. The experiences and perspectives contained in this book challenge the discursive deployment of terms such as post-conflict, peace, and security, and moreover, shed light on the many forms of post-war activism undertaken by combatant women in pursuit of peace, equality, and security. The book represents an important intervention in the field of gender, political violence, and peace, and more specifically, female combatants and conflict transition. It is analytically significant in its exploration of the ways in which gender operates within non-state military movements emerging from conflict, and will be of interest to students and scholars alike.

Item type:

Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.

Holdings ( 0 )
Title notes ( 4 )
Comments ( 0 )

No physical items for this record

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This book stems from a simple 'feminist curiosity' that can be succinctly summed up into a single question: what happens to combatant women after the war? Based on in-depth interviews with40 research participants, mostly former combatants within the Irish Republican Army (IRA), this book offers a critical exploration of republican women and conflict transition in the North of Ireland.Drawing on the feminist theory of a continuum of violence, this book finds that the dichotomous separation of war and peace within conventional approaches represents a gendered fiction. Despite undertaking wartime roles that were empowering, agentic, and subversive, this book finds that the 'post-conflict moment' as experienced by female combatants represents not peace and security, but a continuity of gender discrimination, violence, injustice, and insecurity. The experiences and perspectives contained in this book challenge the discursive deployment of terms such as post-conflict, peace, and security, and moreover, shed light on the many forms of post-war activism undertaken by combatant women in pursuit of peace, equality, and security. The book represents an important intervention in the field of gender, political violence, and peace, and more specifically, female combatants and conflict transition. It is analytically significant in its exploration of the ways in which gender operates within non-state military movements emerging from conflict, and will be of interest to students and scholars alike.

Also available in print format.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.