ABSTRACT

This chapter aims to understand that Greenham Common etc. claim to be women’s campaigns and not feminist ones. To base a campaign on that kind of, but strongly present feeling is not only double-think, but it is not in our interests as women and therefore likely to have reactionary rather than radical consequences. The approved version of all women which feminists have been struggling to destroy is constantly reinforced. This is not accidental, it is crucial to the politics involved, that is, for the appeal to have credibility it must come from a respectable source. The idea that women are naturally non-violent, could not be responsible for wars and the development of nuclear technology, that is, wouldn’t even if we had access to weapons and science; that it is a particular female characteristic to respect life.