Over Our Dead Bodies

Women Against the Bomb

Plot

contents:
Beyond the wasteland / Bel Mooney
How I learnt to start worrying and hate the bomb: the effects of a nuclear bombardment / Jeanette Buirski
Three poems / Gay Clifford
The balance of terror: deterrence and peace-keeping / Beryl Ruehl
The illusion of protection: civil defence / Suzanne Wood
Defend us against our defenders: democracy and security / Dorothy Thompson
Two poems / Janet Dubé
A voice from the peace camps: Greenham Common and Upper Heyford / Maggie Lowry
Fuel for the nuclear arms race: nuclear power and nuclear weapons / Marjorie Mowlam
Letter to my neighbour: nuclear war and the countryside / Ann Pettitt
Take the toys from the boys: competition and the nuclear arms race / Connie Mansueto
Alternative defence: the search for non-nuclear alternatives / Lisa Foley
Alternative defence: nonviolent struggle and peace building / Myrtle Solomon
The women who wire up the weapons: workers in armament factories / Hilary Wainwright
Anger in a black landscape / Angela Carter
Building on the positives: the USSR / Cathy Porter
Building on the positives: the USA / Dorothy Thompson
Poem / Janet Dubé
Contemplating a nuclear future: nuclear war, politics and the individual / Kate Soper
The Women's Peace Crusade: the history of a forgotten campaign / Jill Liddington
Womanpower and nuclear politics: women and the peace movement / Alison Assiter
Interesting times: a chronology of the nuclear age / Marian Sugden