Gender and the subject of (anti)nuclear politics : revisiting women's campaigning against the bomb

Eschle, Catherine (2013) Gender and the subject of (anti)nuclear politics : revisiting women's campaigning against the bomb. International Studies Quarterly, 57 (4). pp. 713-724. ISSN 0020-8833 (https://doi.org/10.1111/isqu.12019)

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Abstract

This article aims to rehabilitate women campaigners against nuclear weapons as a focus of study and interlocutor for feminist International Relations scholars. Highlighting the recent tendency in gender and security studies to ignore or stereotype these campaigners, I first show how their critical re-investigation has been facilitated by recent systematizations of poststructuralist-influenced feminist methodology. In this light, I then revisit the discourses circulating in women’s antinuclear activism in the 1980s before deconstructing in more detail the post-Cold War writings of Helen Caldicott and Angie Zelter. I argue that multiple, differently gendered constructions of the antinuclear campaigner were in play during the Cold War and have since been reconfigured in ways that reflect and reproduce the shift to a post-Cold War context and differences between the United States and UK. In such ways, then, women antinuclear campaigners continue to develop diverse oppositional subject positions in their efforts to challenge nuclear hegemony, in a discursive struggle worthy of attention from gender and security scholars as part of a broader, critical re-engagement with the gendered dimensions of nuclear politics.

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  • Item type:Article
    ID code:48286
    Dates:
    Date
    Event
    December 2013
    Published
    16 November 2012
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    Notes:This is the accepted version of the following article: Eschle, C. (2013), Gender and the Subject of (Anti)Nuclear Politics: Revisiting Women's Campaigning against the Bomb. International Studies Quarterly, 57: 713–724. doi: 10.1111/isqu.12019, which has been published in final form at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/isqu.12019/abstract.
    Keywords:feminism, security, gender, anti-nuclear, discourse, Political theory, Sociology and Political Science, SDG 5 - Gender Equality
    Subjects:Political Science > Political theory
    Department:Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > School of Government and Public Policy > Politics
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:27 May 2014 12:52
    Last modified:02 Dec 2022 01:34
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    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/48286
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