American Anti-Nuclear Activism, 1975-1990: The Challenge of Peace

by K. Harvey

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137432834
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	10/24/2014
Series:	Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements
Edition description:	2014
Pages:	234
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.50(h) x 2.70(d)

About the Author

Kyle Harvey is based at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. He was the 2013 C.H. Currey Memorial Fellow at the State Library of New South Wales.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Dynamics of Anti-Nuclear Activism in the Second Cold War 1. Anti-Nuclear Coalitions: Pacifism, Radical Action, and a Rising Atomic Threat 2. Building a Mainstream Movement: Advertising, Publicity, and Image 3. Personal Politics: Radical Feminism, Difference, and Anti-Nuclear Activism 4. Prayer or Protest? Fasting, Nonviolence, and Anti-Nuclear Activism in the 1980s 5. Activism in the Heartland: Local Identities, Community, and 'The Day After,' in Lawrence, Kansas 6. Lifestyle Politics and Participatory Democracy: Communicating Peace across the United States on the Great Peace March Epilogue