This book provides a comprehensive account of the imprisonment of
women for politically motivated offences in Northern Ireland
between 1972 and 1999. Women political prisoners were engaged in a
campaign to obtain formal recognition as political prisoners, and
then to retain this status after it was revoked. Their lengthy
involvement in a prison conflict of international significance was
notable as much because of its longevity as the radical aspects of
their prison protests, which included hunger strikes,
dirty-protests and campaigns against institutional abuses. Out of
Order brings out the qualitatively distinctive character and
punitive ethos of regimes of political imprisonment for women,
exploring the dynamics of their internal organisation, the ways in
which they subverted order and security in prison, and their
strategies of resistance and exploitation. Drawing upon a wide
range of first hand accounts and interviews this book brings
together perspectives from the areas of political imprisonment, the
penal punishment of women and the question of agency and resistance
in prison to create a unique, highly readable study of a neglected
subject.
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