![]() ![]() ![]() In doing so I offer an alternative approach to the historicization of DIY publishing and feminist grassroots media that focuses on the dynamics of autonomous media practices pre and post-internet. I situate these women's publications in regard to the histories and political trajectories of zine-making, arguing that the ethics and values that shaped Greenham women's publications share a great deal of similarities with zine-making cultures and cultural productions. In this paper, I look at how Greenham publications functioned simultaneously as instrumental tools and affective sites of knowledge production. They served to mobilize new participants, circulate information about events, document women's actions and create forums for cultivating ideas, demands, tactics and analyses. ![]() These print publications incorporated a wide and vibrant array of anecdotes, analyses and images of life at the camp. With such claims, the article aims to re-contextualise Greenham Woman in her particular place and time, and to contribute to a more expansive understanding of the gendering of anti-nuclear activism.įrom the early months of the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp protests, women wishing to offer different perspectives from those found in the corporate press, created their own newsletters and booklets. I conclude that gendered identities constructed in and through anti-nuclear activism are even more variable than previously considered that they shift over time as well as place and are influenced by diverse movements, not solely feminism and that they gain their political effect not only through the transgression of social norms, but also through discursive linkage with, or disconnection from, political subjectivities in wider society. I argue that the 1980s saw the articulation in the camp of the figure of the Gender-Equal Peace Activist, displaced in the mid-1990s by Peace Warrior/Earth Goddess identities shaped by radical environmentalism and reinstating hierarchical gender norms. ![]() I extend the analysis that emerges from this literature in my research on the mixed-gender, long-standing camp at Faslane naval base in Scotland. My starting point is the now substantial academic literature on Cold War women-only peace camps, such as that at Greenham Common. This article investigates the discursive construction of gendered identities in anti-nuclear activism and particularly in peace camps. 3 It is beyond the scope of this article to explore how and why this particular hierarchy of feminist knowledges has been established, but it is part of my task to reassert the relevance of a For the past decade feminist theory has been presided over by feminist philosophy, and the status of feminist sociology, with its concern to theorize from the analysis of social, cultural, political and economic relations, has plummeted. 2 The question has been approached as if it were purely a philosophical one, which could be answered at the level of theory, without recourse to exploration of actual instances of feminist politics. 1 Yet what is remarkable about this debate is that it has been conducted at such a level of abstraction that concrete discussions of feminist practice have been almost entirely absent. The question strikes at the heart for so many of us, because ultimately feminist scholars share a commitment to social transformation which demands that we return to the question of the relationship between our theory and feminist practice. Numerous books and articles have been devoted, more or less explicitly, to this question, and the issue has dominated conversations in formal and informal gatherings of feminist scholars for several years. As discussions of`postmodernism' continue to rage within feminist thought, this question has come to occupy centre stage in the collective conscience of academic feminism. ![]()
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