Banning the Bomb, Smashing the Patriarchy

Ray Acheson is currently director of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom’s disarmament program in New York City. Ray leads the organization’s work on stigmatizing war and violence, advocating and organizing for disarmament, and raising feminist perspectives on militarism and weapons. Ray represents WILPF within the International Steering Group of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), which won the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize. Ray has been awarded the 2020 Nuclear Free Future Award and the 2018 UN Women Metro New York Champion of Change prize.

Foreword, Setsuko Thurlow

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1. “Terminally Unserious”: Ideologies and Oppressions of Nuclear Weapons

Chapter 2. Rage Against the Bomb: A Brief History of Antinuclear Efforts

Chapter 3. Reclaiming Our Time: Changing Discourse, Changing Minds

Chapter 4. Karaoke and Campaigning: Building a Case and a Community

Chapter 5. Revitalizing a Movement

Chapter 6. From Deterrence to Disarmament: How the Humanitarian Initiative Disrupted the Nuclear Weapon Orthodoxy

Chapter 7. Courage, My Love: How Nuclear-Free States Fought for the Ban

Chapter 8. Getting Our Ban On, Part One: The What

Chapter 9. Getting Our Ban On, Part Two: The How

Conclusion

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