What Became of 'Frontline Feminism'? A Retro-perspective on Post-conflict Belfast
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3945468 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cynthia Cockburn (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 105 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 103-121 |
| Publication date | 2013-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Feminist Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-7789 • E-ISSN: 1466-4380 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/fr.2013.20 |
| OpenAlex | W2093895504 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 16 |
A feminist stock-taking on 'post-conflict', this paper revisits a study made by the author in 1996-1997, when the women's community sector was a lively actor in the processes leading to the Good Friday Peace Agreement of 1998. Refusing to observe sectarian conflict lines, women's centres were re-writing official 'community development' policy as community empowerment and political challenge. The author draws on new interviews conducted in 2012 with feminist community activists of that earlier period of 'frontline feminism', associated with the Belfast Women's Support Network. The women reveal how continuing poverty, discrimination, violence and unhealed trauma still characterise working-class life in the post-conflict period, and impede the integration of Protestant and Catholic communities. Official provisions for gender equality have been interpreted in gender-neutral ways, and in some cases turned against women. The demilitarisation of masculinity has been painfully slow. The women's community sector has experienced a loss of political drive as women's centres have become service providers, dependent on state funding. Feminism is renewing itself, but in fresh forms with different priorities. Will it recover a voice that 'speaks truth to power
Empowerment · Feminism · Masculinity · Political science · Politics · Poverty · Power (physics) · Sociology · Gender Studies · Irish and British Studies · Law
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| Unique citing works | 7 |
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| Citations per year | 0,7 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2024 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |