9. ‘Mother Ireland, Get Off Our Backs’: Republican Feminist Resistance in the North of Ireland

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 7
3. Acknowledgements 9
4. 1. Contextualizing the Troubles: Investigating Deeply Divided Societies through Social Movements Research 11
5. 2. What Did the Civil Rights Movement Want? Changing Goals and Underlying Continuities in the Transition from Protest to Violence 33
6. 3. Vacillators or Resisters? The Unionist Government Responses to the Civil Rights Movement in Northern Ireland 53
7. 4. White Negroes and the Pink IRA. External Mainstream Media Coverage and Civil Rights Contention in Northern Ireland 71
8. 5. ‘We Are the People’: Protestant Identity and Collective Action in Northern Ireland, 1968-1985 91
9. 6. Ulster Loyalist Accounts of Armed Mobilization, Demobilization, and Decommissioning 111
10. 7. Social Movements and Social Movement Organizations:Recruitment, Ideology, and Splits 129
11. 8. Movement Inside and Outside of Prison: The H-Block Protest 147
12. 9. ‘Mother Ireland, Get Off Our Backs’: Republican Feminist Resistance in the North of Ireland 165
13. 10. ‘One Community, Many Faces’: Non-sectarian Social Movements and Peace-building in Northern Ireland and Lebanon 185
14. 11. The Peace People: Principled and Revolutionary Non-violence in Northern Ireland 203
15. Afterword: Social Movements, Long-term Processes, and Ethnic Division in Northern Ireland 223
16. List of Authors 239
17. Index 241