| #1158952 in Books | Princeton University Press | 1997-09-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.21 x.51 x6.14l,.76 | File type: PDF | 208 pages | ||17 of 17 people found the following review helpful.| Very interesting|By Maria Pia Capozzoli|As a strong reader with a great interest in the "Troubles", I've read many books, by T. P. Coogan, P. Taylor, M. Dillon and others. I found most of them very interesting, but I was amazed by the overwhelming "shattering silence" about women. For instance, in 519 pages of Coogan's "The Troubles", one of the most important IRA women, M||"An important book. Through clearly-written, thoroughly-grounded, and conscientious ethnography, Aretxaga urges readers away from the pat caricature of a brutal and male-dominated Northern Ireland, and toward an informed understanding of the complexity and poi
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, ...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Shattering Silence | Begoña Aretxaga. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
