Feminist Identity Development and Activism in Revolutionary Movements [Paperback]

This book examines how many women active in revolutionary movements develop feminist identities and how this identity simultaneously contributes to and conflicts with the struggle for women's emancipation.1. Rethinking Women and Nationalism 2. Women's Troubles: Gender, Violence and the State 3. A Woman's Place is in the Armed Struggle? 4. The Mini-skirt Brigade: Distorting Women's Participation in Armed Conflict 5. The Rousing of Republican Feminism. . . 6. Reformation Versus Revolution? Feminist Genealogies in Conflict

The aim of the book is to show how feministidentity development and nationalism can be interlinked. & as a contribution tothe bodies of literature on conflict and peace studies, gender studies, theoryon nationalism and critical social movement theory, this book supplies thediscourse of women in war with a fresh disrupting of the boundariesconstructed around the representation of women in armed conflict. (AnnetteBehrens, Interface, Vol. 7 (2), November, 2015)

Theresa O'Keefe is Assistant Lecturer in Sociology at the National University of Ireland Maynooth.