As nuclear weapons rise up the international agenda, I will be talking at Sussex University about The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, the first academic study of the movement in Britain to be published this century, with Sasha Roseneil, the University’s Vice-Chancellor, author of Disarming Patriarchy: Feminism and Political Action at Greenham (Open University Press, 1995), and Common Women, Uncommon Practices: the Queer Feminisms of Greenham (Cassell/Bloomsbury, 2000).
The movement against nuclear weapons was the first postwar mass protest movement in Britain and the discussion will include the roles of social movements and the intersections between them as well as the current politics of nuclear weapons. In addition to their academic research, both speakers were participants in the 1980s peace movement, Sasha in the Greenham Common women’s peace camp and I in European Nuclear Disarmament and CND.
Martin Shaw 