Shattering silence : women, nationalism, and political subjectivity in Northern Ireland

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Shattering silence : women, nationalism, and political subjectivity in Northern Ireland

Begoña Aretxaga

Princeton University Press, 1997

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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pbk. : alk. paper ISBN 9780691037547

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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 of Belfast organized themselves into street committees and led popular forms of resistance against the policies of the government of Northern Ireland and, after its demise, against those of the British. In the abundant literature on the conflict, however, the political tactics of nationalist women have passed virtually unnoticed. Begona Aretxaga argues here that these hitherto invisible practices were an integral part of the social dynamic of the conflict and had important implications for the broader organization of nationalist forms of resistance and gender relationships. Combining interpretative anthropology and poststructuralist feminist theory, Aretxaga contributes not only to anthropology and feminist studies but also to research on ethnic and social conflict by showing the gendered constitution of political violence. She goes further than asserting that violence affects men and women differently by arguing that the manners in which violence is gendered are not fixed but constantly shifting, depending on the contingencies of history, social class, and ethnic identity. Thus any attempt at subverting gender inequality is necessarily colored by other dimensions of political experience.

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PrefaceCh. 1Opening the Space of Interpretation3Ch. 2Catholic West Belfast: A Sense of Place24Ch. 3Gender Trouble and the Transformation of Consciousness54Ch. 4The Ritual Politics of Historical Legitimacy80Ch. 5The Gendered Politics of Suffering: Women of the RAC105Ch. 6The Power of Sexual Difference: Armagh Women122Ch. 7En-Gendering a Nation146Afterword170Notes177References185Index201
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cloth : alk. paper ISBN 9780691037554

内容説明

Presents a feminist ethnography of the violence in Northern Ireland, providing an analysis of a political conflict through the lens of gender. The case in point is the 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, and, after its demise, against those of the British. This text argues that these practices were an integral part of the social dynamic of the conflict and had important implications for the broader organization of nationalsit forms of resistance and gender relationships.

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