Female combatants after armed struggle: lost in transition? (1st)

This volume stems from a simple 'feminist curiosity' that can be succinctly summed up into a single question: what happens to combatant women after the war?

Based on in-depth interviews with 40 research participants, mostly former combatants within the Irish Republican Army (IRA), this book offers a critical exploration of republican women and conflict transition in the North of Ireland.

Drawing on the feminist theory of a continuum of violence, it finds that the dichotomous separation of war and peace within conventional approaches represents a gendered fiction.