Female Combatants after Armed Struggle

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Niall Gilmartin (University of Dublin, Trinity College, Ireland.)

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Routledge
28 November 2018

Peace studies & conflict resolution; Gender studies: women; International relations

Series: Routledge Studies in Gender and Global Politics

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 with 40 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.

By: Niall Gilmartin (University of Dublin Trinity College Ireland.)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 430g
ISBN: 9780415786379
ISBN 10: 0415786371
Series: Routledge Studies in Gender and Global Politics
Pages: 196
Publication Date: 28 November 2018
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Foreword by Cynthia Enloe. 1. Introduction 2. Who Fought the War? The Gendered Constructions of Soldiering Roles in Post-War Commemorative Processes 3. Gendering the Post-Conflict Narrative 4. From the Front-lines of War to the Side-Lines of Peace? Republican Women and the Irish Peace Process 5. Beyond Regression: Change and Continuity in Women’s Post-War Activism 6. Conclusion

Niall Gilmartin is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology, University of Dublin, Trinity College, Ireland.