Women in Northern Irish Politics

Difference Matters

Datos Bibliográficos

ID20070541
AutoresEilish Rooney (Social Policy Research Associates (United States), autor de correspondencia)
Año2000
Páginas164-186
Fecha de publicación2000-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoCHAPTER
RevistaGender, Democracy and Inclusion in Northern Ireland (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialPalgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/9780333985397_8
OpenAlexW29662327
ISBN9780333985397
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas14
Referencias citadas21

This chapter is a series of critical reflections. It is driven by the effort to grasp, explain and understand further what women do and how gender works in the politically divided and sectarian society of the north of Ireland.1 It offers a situated exploration: of women in conflict; of democracy and sectarianism; and of feminism and local feminist approaches to conflict and war. The chapter contends that the historically sedimented, asymmetrical power relationships between unionism and nationalism in the north of Ireland matter to women and men. These relationships shape political perspectives, experiences, behaviour and life chances. They are the relationships at the core of the efforts to reach a more just democracy contained in the provisions of the Good Friday Agreement.2 Democracy, what it is, who has a purchase on it, and how it works in a divided society, are all issues of popular political debate here in the north of Ireland. They are also matters of keen debate in the context of devolution in Britain. The chapter provides an analysis of some of the contexts within which takes place the work of people involved in the case-study organisations discussed in Part II of the book

Democracy · Ethnology · Feminism · Geography · Irish · Nationalism · Northern ireland · Political science · Politics · Sectarianism · Sociology · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Irish and British Studies · Law