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- Title
Incarcerated women and feminist activism: A case study of Margaretta D'Arcy.
- Authors
Murphy, Ciara L.
- Abstract
This article interrogates the relationship between feminist activism and performance through an analysis of Margaretta D'Arcy's time in the Armagh Jail during the republican 'no-wash' protest in 1980 in the north of Ireland. D'Arcy, who is an Irish artist, performer and activist, mirrors the performative strategies of the women prison protestors through an engagement with second-wave feminist methodologies. D'Arcy's embodied and literal archiving of this experience constitutes a moment of performative activism that will be examined throughout the article by drawing on D'Arcy's perspectives and intentions by engaging with her 1981 memoir of that time, Tell Them Everything, as well as supplementary interviews and archival research.
- Subjects
ACTIVISM; FEMINISTS; CASE studies; ARCHIVAL research; REPUBLICANS
- Publication
Scene (2044-3714), 2020, Vol 8, Issue 1/2, p149
- ISSN
2044-3714
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1386/scene_00029_1