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BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WOMEN IN NORTHERN IRISH POLITICS

This page lists most of the major works on women in politics in Northern Ireland. As there has been less published on women in Northern Ireland politics than the rest of Ireland and the UK the books and articles have not been categorised like the bibliographical sections of the Observatory dealing with Britain and Ireland. Please email us with any suggested additions to this list.

Brown, Alice, Tahnya Barnett Donaghy, Fiona Mackay and Elizabeth Meehan, 2002. 'Women and Constitutional Change in Northern Ireland', Parliamentary Affairs, 55:1, pp.71-84.

Cowell-Meyers, Kimberly, 2001. Gender, Power and Peace: A Preliminary Look at Women in the Northern Ireland Assembly, Women and Politics, 22:4.

Devlin, Bernadette, 1969. The Price of My Soul. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

Democratic Dialogue, 1996. Power, Politics and Positions of Women in Northern Ireland, Belfast: Democratic Dialogue.

Department of Enterprise, Trade & Investment, 2002. Women in Northern Ireland January 2002, Belfast: Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency.

Equal Opportunities Commission Northern Ireland, 1996. In Pursuit of Equality: A National Agenda for Action, Policy Papers, EOCNI, EOCGB, WNC.

Evason, E., 1985. Right Brothers! A Study of Women and Trade Unions in Northern Ireland, unpublished manuscript. Coleraine: University of Ulster.

Fearon, Kate (ed.), 1996. Power, Politics, Positioning: Women in Northern Ireland. Belfast: Democratic Dialogue.

Fearon, Kate, 1999. Women's Work: the Story of the Northern Ireland Women's Coalition. Belfast: Blackstaff Press.

Galligan, Yvonne, Eilís Ward and Rick Wilford (eds.), 1999. Contesting Politics: Women in Ireland, North and South. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press and PSAI Press.

Gray, Ann Marie and Caroline McCamley. No Place for a Woman: A Working Document on Women and Public Bodies North and South of Ireland. Belfast: Northern Ireland Women's European Platform.

Hinds, Bronagh, 1995. 'Women in Politics', Forum for Peace and Reconciliation, Northern Ireland Women's Platform.

Kingham, N., 1975. United We Stood: The History of the Ulster Women's Council, 1911-1974. Belfast: Appletree Press.

Langdon, Julia, 2000. Mo Mowlam. London: Little, Brown.

McGilloway, M., 1996. Setting a New Agenda: an Analysis of the Women's Coalition in the 1996 Northern Ireland Election, unpublished M.Sc. thesis, Queen's University of Belfast.

McWilliams, Monica, 1993. 'Women in Northern Ireland: An Overview', in E. Hughes (ed.), Culture and Politics in Northern Ireland: 1960-1990. Milton Keynes: Oxford University Press, 1993, pp.81-100.

McWilliams, Monica and Avila Kilmurray, 1997. 'Athene on the Loose: the Origins of the Northern Ireland Women's Coalition', Irish Journal of Feminist Studies, 2:1, pp.1-21.

McWilliams, Monica and Elizabeth Porter, 1995. Women, Politics and Ways Forward. Belfast: University of Ulster.

Miller, Robert L., Rick Wilford and Freda Donoghue,1996. Women and Political Participation in Northern Ireland. Aldershot: Avebury.

Mowlam, Mo, 2002. Momentum. London: Hodder & Stoughton.

Porter, Elizabeth, 1997. 'Diversity and Communality: Women, Politics and Northern Ireland', European Journal of Women's Studies, 4, pp.83-100.

Rooney, Elizabeth and Margaret Woods, 1995. Women, Community and Politics in Northern Ireland. Belfast: University of Ulster.

Roulston, Carmel, and Celia Davies (eds.) 2000. Gender, Democracy and Inclusion in Northern Ireland. Houndsmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave.

Rynder, Constance, Spring 2002. 'The Origins and Early Years of the Northern Ireland Women's Coalition', New Hibernia Review, 6:1, pp.44-58.

Urquhart, Diane, 2000. Women in Ulster Politics, 1890-1940: A History Not Yet Told. Portland, Oregon: Irish Academic Press.

Ward, Margaret, 1995. 'Finding a Place: Women and the Irish Peace Process', Race and Class, 37:1, pp.37-50.

Ward, Margaret, 2000. 'The Northern Ireland Assembly: assessing the gender deficit', Democratic Dialogue.

Ward, Rachel, 2002. 'Invisible Women: The Political Roles of Unionist and Loyalist Women in Contemporary Northern Ireland', Parliamentary Affairs, 55:1, pp.167-78.

Whittaker, Robin, 1999. Reading Between the Lines: A Report on Political Women and the Press. Belfast: Northern Ireland Women's European Platform.

Wilford, Rick, Robert Miller, Yolanda Bell and Freda Donoghue, 1993. 'In Their Own Voices: Women Councillors in Northern Ireland', Public Administration, 71:3, pp.341-355.

Wilford, Rick, 1996. 'Women and Politics in Northern Ireland', pp.43-56 in Joni Lovenduski and Pippa Norris (eds.), Women in Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Wilford, Rick, 1998. 'Women's Candidacies and Electability in a Divided Society:the Northern Ireland Women's Coalition and the Northern Ireland Forum Election 1996', Women and Politics, 20:1, pp.73-93.

Elise G. Young, June 2001. 'The Geopolitics of Race: Women from Palestine, Israel, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland Meet', Journal of International Women's Studies, 2:3.

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