Bridge-builder feminism: the feminist movement and conflict in Northern Ireland

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dc.contributor.authorO'Keefe, Theresa
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-09T15:15:47Z
dc.date.available2022-03-09T15:15:47Z
dc.date.issued2021-02-03
dc.date.updated2022-03-08T23:28:51Z
dc.description.abstractWhile gender has been widely used as an analytical category to understand the dynamics of conflict transformation in Northern Ireland, surprisingly little has been written on the ways in which the conflict has shaped or constrained feminist organising. Singular focus on groups or initiatives like the Northern Ireland Women's Coalition, Peace People or the Women's Support Network has overshadowed the contested history and intricacies of the wider feminist movement. Adopting a more holistic view, this article takes the concept of ‘bridge-builders' as conceptualised by Ruane and Todd in The Dynamics of Conflict in Northern Ireland (1996) to examine the fractured development of the feminist movement in the North. It charts how ‘bridge-builder feminism' became a distinguishable feature of the feminist movement during the Troubles and was used as a mechanism to transgress what Todd calls the ‘grammars of nationality’ (Todd, 2015). I argue that although this organising approach pioneered some changes in Northern Irish society, it overlooked key feminist struggles and thrived at the expense of an inclusive, intersectional feminism. Though the movement has undergone significant changes in the last two decades, the legacy of bridge-builder feminism continues to impact the capacities of the movement to address key feminist issues.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
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dc.identifier.citationO'Keefe, T. (2021) 'Bridge-builder feminism: the feminist movement and conflict in Northern Ireland', Irish Political Studies, 36(1), pp. 52-71. doi: 10.1080/07907184.2021.1877898en
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/07907184.2021.1877898en
dc.identifier.eissn1743-9078
dc.identifier.endpage71en
dc.identifier.issn0790-7184
dc.identifier.issued1en
dc.identifier.journaltitleIrish Political Studiesen
dc.identifier.startpage52en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/12886
dc.identifier.volume36en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherRoutledge - Taylor & Francis Groupen
dc.rights© 2021, the Author. Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distri bution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/en
dc.subjectFeminismen
dc.subjectSocial movementsen
dc.subjectEthno-national identityen
dc.subjectPeaceen
dc.subjectNorthern Irelanden
dc.titleBridge-builder feminism: the feminist movement and conflict in Northern Irelanden
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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