Alice Mcintyre

Women in Belfast

How Violence Shapes Identity

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this study, a group of working-class women narrate their own stories, lives, and place in Belfast, showing how the geography, community, and-perhaps most of all-conflict becomes deeply intertwined with identity. These women, who have been socially excluded and economically disadvantaged, describe their lives during war and a now precarious peace. Challenging traditional methods of conducting research in the social sciences, McIntyre enlists Participatory action research to understand how these women see themselves, their world and their place in it. Participatory action research includes creative and interactive projects-collages, painting, poetry, and photography-to enable free expression. We see in this volume how the Belfast women negotiate and struggle with the intersections of violence, politics, gender, parenting, community work, religion, fear, humor, friendship, and their deeply held views of what it means to be an Irish woman.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9780275979256
• ISBN-10: 0275979253
• Artikelnr.: 21888877

Autorenporträt

ALICE MCINTYRE is a psychologist, Associate Professor and Director of the Elementary Education Program at Hellenic College. She is also the author of Inner-City Kids: Adolescents Confront Life and Violence in an Urban Community.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Women Researching their Own Lives: Feminist Participatory
Action Research Past and Present Violence in Women's Lives Geographies of
Place and Identity: A Visual Story of Monument Road Babymakers and Sweet
Colleens: Women's Identities in the North of Ireland Women and/in Politics:
"How Bloody Defeatin' Is That!" At the End of the Day References Index