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Fyrirlesturinn ber titilinn Femininity in Dissent: Women Ex-combatants, gender and peace in Northern Ireland.

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Femininity in Dissent: Women Ex-combatants, gender and peace in Northern Ireland

This paper addresses the experiences of imprisonment of female combatants in the Irish Republican Army during the period known as the Conflict or euphemistically understated as ‘the Troubles’ in Northern Ireland. Although, much has been written about the recent political struggles in Northern Ireland, the experiences of women combatants have too often been silenced and under-explored. By tracing former female ex-combatants experiences of political protest, this paper highlights why women became involved in the IRA (Aretxaga 1997; McWilliams 1995), the travails of imprisonment and the prison’s power to punish. This paper will argue that the experiences of female political prisoners was not only gender differentiated but that they played a salient role in the societal transformation to peace.