Neither can be the reason that there are not enough women active in the anti-nuclear movement. On the contrary, we have the impression that the majority of persons active is female. Well, one reason to publish this special is to give the floor to women. On the other hand, women are more reluctant to speak out, to consider themselves as expert and to take a leading role. Another reason for this special is that we hope that a special written by women might bring information beside the data on nuclear developments.
Women tend to focus more and easier on the social and the emotional sides of life.
It is this side of the work we want to bring to attention. In this special you will find articles of a very different kind of women. The same damaging value systems and social processes are at the basis of repression of women, the destruction of nature and militarism. Hierarchy, the right of the strong to overrule the weak, the rational to overrule the emotional, science to overrule nature, Western culture to overrule the rest of the world, is rejected by many female activists as a male value that forms a basis for much environmental destruction and war preparation. Women involve the individual and particular, men emphasize the big picture and the abstract, theoretical.