This book explores 50 years of Irish women's prison writing, 1960s-2010s, connecting the work of women leaders and writers in the Six Counties of Ireland during the Troubles.

Red Washburn, PhD, is Professor of English and Director of Women's and Gender Studies at the City University of New York, Kingsborough Community College. They also teach Women's and Gender Studies at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center. They are the co-editor of Women's Studies Quarterly, published by the Feminist Press. Red's articles appear in Journal for the Study of Radicalism, Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, and Journal of Lesbian Studies. Their essays are in several anthologies, including Theory and Praxis: Women's and Gender Studies at Community Colleges, Introduction to Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies: Interdisciplinary and Intersectional Approaches, and Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community. They are the co-editor of Sinister Wisdom's Dump Trump: Legacies of Resistance, 45 Years: A Tribute to Lesbian Herstory Archive, and Trans/Feminisms. Finishing Line Press published their poetry collections Crestview Tree Woman and Birch Philosopher X. They received an American Council of Learned Societies/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation fellowship for their next project Nonbinary: Tr@ns-Forming Gender and Genre in Nonbin@ry Literature, Performance, and Visual Art. Red is a coordinator at the Lesbian Herstory Archives and on the board of directors of Center for LGBTQ Studies.

Chapter 1: Introduction: Knowledge, Power, and Intersections of Theory/ History/ Auto/biography/ Methodology

Chapter 2: Civil Rights March Script: Rhetoric, Politics, and Tactics in Bernadette McAliskey's Memoir The Price of My Soul

Chapter 3: In the Footsteps of the Officers-in-Command: The Comradeship of No Wash, Hunger Strikes, and Fecal Art in the Prison Prose of Eileen Hickey, Mairéad Farrell, and Síle Darragh

Chapter 4: "Our Only Weapon Was Our Pen": Strip-Searching and Resistance in the Politics and Prison Epistolary of Ella O'Dwyer and Martina Anderson

Chapter 5: Sisters in Shackles: Sisterhood, Exile, and Force-Feeding in the Writings of the Price and Gillespie Sisters

Chapter 6: Writing on the Walls: Power and Struggle in the Prison Poetry of Roseleen Walsh

Chapter 7: Bloody Writing: Menstruation and Herstory in Margaretta D'Arcy's Tell Them Everything

Chapter 8: Conclusion: Towards an Interdisciplinary Prison Archive and an Intersectional Abolitionist Feminism