ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with the detailed investigation of the British Christian Women's Movement, taking Eve and Christian women's consciousness as the starting point of the enquiry. The Christian women's Eve is located in relation to the secular and Woman spirit – or Goddess – commitments found in the Women's Liberation Movement of the 1970s. Eve is repudiated in the wider movement. The scene then shifts to the Greenham Common Peace Camp of the 1980s, where differing strategies for the rehabilitation of Eve are identified among the women involved, including religious feminists, both Christian and Woman spirit. The legacy of 'first-wave' feminism, with its reliance upon woman's good repute is detected, alongside a 'second-wave' enthusiasm for a new constructive capacity at work in women. The chapter demonstrates the dissemination of the 'second-wave' consciousness throughout the Christian women's movement of the second CWIRES phase, 1983–1990.
