Public Protest, Domestic Acquiescence
Women in Northern Ireland
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20059634 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lynda Edgerton (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1986 |
| Pages | 61-83 |
| Publication date | 1986-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Caught up in Conflict (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Macmillan Education UK (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/978-1-349-18380-7_4 |
| OpenAlex | W2471245336 |
| ISBN | 9781349183807 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 1 |
Women in Northern Ireland are no strangers to social and political action, but their efforts have been directed almost wholly to civil rights rather than to women’s issues. At the beginning of this century James Connolly described the Northern Ireland woman as ‘the slave of a slave’ (1981, p. 10). This graphic phrase is no less fitting today. Given the bitter political divisions of Northern Ireland, its depressed socio-economic conditions and the powerfully conservative influence of the dominant churches, it is little wonder that women have remained in a relative backwater of feminism. Striving to survive in difficult circumstances is not the most conducive forum for women’s debate about alternatives that may appear either abstract or totally out of reach for the majority of the working class; more than that, many women have been encouraged to reject such alternatives as alien
Acquiescence · Alien · Citizenship · Ethnology · Feminism · Northern ireland · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Wonder · Gender Studies · Irish and British Studies · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
Women and the Northern Ireland Conflict
Northern Irish Attitudes Toward Gendered Family Roles Before and After the Good Friday Agreement
Victimhood, Identity, and Agency in the Early Phase of the Troubles in Northern Ireland
From co‐op to co‐opt
Travelling memories, the afterlife of feelings, and associative diffraction in oral histories of Northern Irish migrants to Britain during the Troubles
Gendered Spaces and Intimate Citizenship
Surveying politics of peace, gender, conflict and identity in Northern Ireland
Commemorating dead ‘men
Women and the family in Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland's Abortion Law
Gendered Candidate Selection and the Representation of Women in Northern Ireland
Bridge-builder feminism
Masculinity and nationalism
Gendering ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland
| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,42 |
| Citation span | 1993 - 2024 (32) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |