Women, Policing and Resistance in Northern Ireland

A rich and varied collection of interviews which present women's reflections on the policing of events from the civil rights marches of the late 1960s right up to the post-ceasefire period of the 1990s, drawing out the specific strategies used by the police and military to intimidate and humiliate women, strategies that typically involved sexual threat and innuendo. She also describes how women used their tongues as their greatest weapon in defying the authorities: through their speech, their argument, their silence.Pickering, Sharon is the author of 'Women, Policing and Resistance in Northern Ireland', published 2003 under ISBN 9781900960205 and ISBN 1900960206.