From Greenham Common to Red Square: women for life on Earth and cross-bloc activism in the 1980s
(2022)
Journal Article
Barnett, N. (2022). From Greenham Common to Red Square: women for life on Earth and cross-bloc activism in the 1980s. Contemporary British History, 36(3), 459-481. https://doi.org/10.1080/13619462.2022.2100987
This article examines how the activist group Women for Life on Earth (WFLOE)
attempted to persuade the USSR to ditch their nuclear weapons. The article finds that
WFLOE began a women-led campaign and engaged with unofficial activists and ordinary...
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