RT Article
T1 Menstruation as a Weapon of War: The Politics of the Bleeding Body for Women on Political Protest at Armagh Prison, Northern Ireland
JF The prison journal
VO 99
IS 1
SP 112
OP 131
A1 Wahidin, Azrini 1972-
LA English
YR 2019
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1743005466
AB This article draws on the voices of women political prisoners who were detained at Armagh Prison during the period of the Troubles or the Conflict in Northern Ireland. It focuses on women who undertook an extraordinary form of protest against the prison authorities during the 1980s, known as the No Wash Protest. As the prisoners were prevented from leaving their cells by prison officer either to wash or to use the toilet, the women, living in the midst of their own dirt and body waste, added menstrual blood as a form of protest.
K1 Armagh Prison
K1 Irish Republican Army
K1 Menstruation
K1 Political protest
K1 No Wash Protest
K1 Women
K1 Northern Ireland
DO 10.1177/0032885518814730