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‘Wee Women No More’: Female Partners of Republican Political Prisoners in Belfast

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  • Peter Shirlow

    (School of Law, Queen's University Belfast, University Road, Belfast BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland)

  • Lorraine Dowler

    (Department of Geography, Penn State University, 324 Walker Building, University Park, PA 16802, USA)

Abstract

Studies of the female partners of politically motivated prisoners have generally studied women via a caring paradigm. Less well observed are those women who privately transgressed and challenged masculine-centred renditions or political imprisonment. This lacuna in the research dedicated to such women has been constructed around stereotypical depictions of them as a barely visible support network. We argue that the relatively indiscernible appearance of women who challenged such typecasting is attached to a persistent process of gender blindness within which women remain peripheral to wider narratives of collectivity and ideological presentation. We chart how some women actively involved themselves in creating their own identity as active agents, especially when the effects of conflict entered the private sphere.

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  • Peter Shirlow & Lorraine Dowler, 2010. "‘Wee Women No More’: Female Partners of Republican Political Prisoners in Belfast," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 42(2), pages 384-399, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envira:v:42:y:2010:i:2:p:384-399
    DOI: 10.1068/a41369
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    1. Fidelma Ashe, 2006. "Gendering the Holy Cross School Dispute: Women and Nationalism in Northern Ireland," Political Studies, Political Studies Association, vol. 54, pages 147-164, March.
    2. Fidelma Ashe, 2006. "Gendering the Holy Cross School Dispute: Women and Nationalism in Northern Ireland," Political Studies, Political Studies Association, vol. 54(1), pages 147-164, March.
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