American Anti-Nuclear Activism, 1975-1990 [electronic resource] : The Challenge of Peace /
Harvey, K.author.
Looking at national peace organizations alongside lesser-known protest collectives, this book argues that anti-nuclear activists encountered familiar challenges common to other social movements of the late twentieth century.
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Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Dynamics of Anti-Nuclear Activism in the Second Cold War; Anti-Nuclear Activism in American History; Thinking about Social Movements in the 1970s and 1980s; Spheres of Anti-Nuclear Activism, 1975-1990; 1 Anti-Nuclear Coalitions: Pacifism, Radical Action, and a Rising Atomic Threat; Local Hazards, National Consequences; Defining the Movement; Nuclear Weapons and Multi-Issue Activism; Anti-Nuclear Protest after Three Mile Island; Negotiating Radicalism: Strategies, Tactics, and the Freeze
June 12 and the Scope of the MovementCoalitions and the Challenge of Activism; 2 Building a Mainstream Movement: Advertising, Publicity, and Image; Mass Movements and Politics; Selling Disarmament; Professionalization, Lobbying, and National Politics; Revising Strategies and Tactics; Assessing the Public Mood; News Media and the Image of Activism; A New Model for Anti-Nuclear Activism?; 3 Personal Politics: Radical Feminism, Difference, and Anti-Nuclear Activism; Feminist Thought, Identity, and Anti-Nuclear Sentiment
"A New Way of Being and Thinking": Radical Feminists, Emotion, and MilitarismThe Personal Expression of Protest; Mother's Day: Conflict, Compromise, and Coalitions; Liberal Feminism, the Mainstream, and the "Female Consciousness"; Inclusion, Exclusion, and Feminist Spaces; "Unaffordable Luxuries"? Personal Protest and Sexual Difference; Gender and Exclusion; Personal and Political Feminisms in the 1980s; 4 Prayer or Protest? Fasting, Nonviolence, and Anti-Nuclear Activism in the 1980s; Revising Gandhi: Nonviolence and Fasting in the United States; Fasting, Protest, and American Christianity
Voluntary Poverty as Social ProtestHunger, Nonviolence, and Political Fasting; Pragmatism, Publicity, and Image; Constructing Public Appeal; The Limits of Open-Ended Fasting; Fasting, Spirituality, and the Meaning of Protest; 5 Activism in the Heartland: Local Identities, Community, and The Day After in Lawrence, Kansas; Lawrence and the Heartland Myth; The Peace Movement in Lawrence; Contesting the Meaning of "Local"; The Limits and Boundaries of Localism; Experimenting with Cultural Diplomacy; Mediating Localism on Television; Mobilizing Fear; Framing Identity: Local and National
Anti-Nuclear Activism and the Heartland Myth in the 1980s6 Lifestyle Politics and Participatory Democracy: Communicating Peace across the United States on the Great Peace March; Corporate Peace Organizing and the Beginnings of the GPM; Crisis and Transformation; Negotiating an Egalitarian Identity; Ordinary Folks and Rural America; Image, Unity, and Individualism; Who Owns the Peace Movement?; The Challenges of Alienation and Apathy; The Great Peace March and the Anti-Nuclear Movement; Epilogue; Notes; Introduction; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Epilogue
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Looking at national peace organizations alongside lesser-known protest collectives, this book argues that anti-nuclear activists encountered familiar challenges common to other social movements of the late twentieth century.
Social history.
America—History.
Civilization—History.
History, Modern.
Radiation protection.
Radiation—Safety measures.
United States—History.
Social History.
History of the Americas.
Cultural History.
Modern History.
Effects of Radiation/Radiation Protection.
US History.