Women on the Margin: the Women’s Movement in Northern Ireland, 1973-1988
Categories: Statebuilding
Sub-Categories: Disarmament Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR), Human Development, Political Transitions
Country: Northern Ireland
Region: Europe and Eurasia
Year: 1989
Citation: Roulston, Carmel. “Women on the Margin: the Women’s Movement in Northern Ireland, 1973-1988.” Science & Society 53, no. 2 (Summer 1989): 219-236.
Sub-Categories: Disarmament Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR), Human Development, Political Transitions
Country: Northern Ireland
Region: Europe and Eurasia
Year: 1989
Citation: Roulston, Carmel. “Women on the Margin: the Women’s Movement in Northern Ireland, 1973-1988.” Science & Society 53, no. 2 (Summer 1989): 219-236.
Executive Summary
This paper examines the changes in women’s roles in the late 1970s/early 1980s in Northern Ireland. It looks at ways in which the IRA and Republicanism efforts provided means for women to move past gender norms and repressive social customs.