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This book explores 50 years of Irish women's prison writing, 1960s-2010s, connecting the work of women leaders and writers in the Six Counties of Ireland during the Troubles.
List of contents
Chapter 1: Introduction: Knowledge, Power, and Intersections of Theory/ History/ Auto/biography/ Methodology
Chapter 2: Civil Rights March Script: Rhetoric, Politics, and Tactics in Bernadette McAliskey's Memoir
The Price of My SoulChapter 3: In the Footsteps of the Officers-in-Command: The Comradeship of No Wash, Hunger Strikes, and Fecal Art in the Prison Prose of Eileen Hickey, Mairéad Farrell, and Síle Darragh
Chapter 4: "Our Only Weapon Was Our Pen": Strip-Searching and Resistance in the Politics and Prison Epistolary of Ella O'Dwyer and Martina Anderson
Chapter 5: Sisters in Shackles: Sisterhood, Exile, and Force-Feeding in the Writings of the Price and Gillespie Sisters
Chapter 6: Writing on the Walls: Power and Struggle in the Prison Poetry of Roseleen Walsh
Chapter 7: Bloody Writing: Menstruation and Herstory in Margaretta D'Arcy's
Tell Them Everything Chapter 8: Conclusion: Towards an Interdisciplinary Prison Archive and an Intersectional Abolitionist Feminism
About the author
Red Washburn, PhD, is Professor of English and Director of Women's and Gender Studies at the City University of New York, Kingsborough Community College. They also teach Women's and Gender Studies at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center. They are the co-editor of
Women's Studies Quarterly, published by the Feminist Press. Red's articles appear in
Journal for the Study of Radicalism,
Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, and
Journal of Lesbian Studies. Their essays are in several anthologies, including
Theory and Praxis: Women's and Gender Studies at Community Colleges,
Introduction to Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies: Interdisciplinary and Intersectional Approaches, and
Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community. They are the co-editor of Sinister Wisdom's
Dump Trump: Legacies of Resistance, 45 Years: A Tribute to Lesbian Herstory Archive, and
Trans/Feminisms.
Finishing Line Press published their poetry collections
Crestview Tree Woman and
Birch Philosopher X. They received an American Council of Learned Societies/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation fellowship for their next project
Nonbinary: Tr@ns-Forming Gender and Genre in Nonbin@ry Literature, Performance, and Visual Art. Red is a coordinator at the Lesbian Herstory Archives and on the board of directors of Center for LGBTQ Studies.
Summary
This book explores 50 years of Irish women’s prison writing, 1960s-2010s, connecting the work of women leaders and writers in the Six Counties of Ireland during the Troubles.
