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Women's Pentagon Action (WPA)
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Harvey, K, Women's Pentagon Action (WPA), Opposition to war: An encyclopedia of U.S. peace and antiwar movements, MK Hall (ed), Santa Barbara, 2, pp. 733-734 (2018) [Entry]
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Abstract
As a decentralized activist organization, Women's Pentagon Action (WPA) ran two
large demonstrations at the Pentagon in ovember 1980 and November 1981,
emphasizing expressive feminist protest. The collective of peace, feminist, and
environmental organizers was active in the early to rnid-l 980s. Its origins lay in a
conference entitled "Women and Life on Earth: A Conference on Ecofemin:ism in the
'80s," held in Amherst at the University of Massachusetts in March 1980. Its 700
participants explored feminist responses to the Three Mile Island nuclear accident of
1979, and the coalition of New York and New England-based organizers behind the
conference aimed to facilitate a discussion of how philosophies of feminism and ecology
could connect to issues of militarism, racism, and environmental disaster. The
Women and Life on Earth coahtion immediately began planning a program of action
around the theme of militarism, and organizers soon formed a new collective-the
Women's Pentagon Action-to coordinate the protest scheduled for later that year.
Item Details
Item Type: | Entry |
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Keywords: | peace movement, nuclear weapons, feminism |
Research Division: | History, Heritage and Archaeology |
Research Group: | Historical studies |
Research Field: | North American history |
Objective Division: | Culture and Society |
Objective Group: | Understanding past societies |
Objective Field: | Understanding the past of the Americas |
UTAS Author: | Harvey, K (Dr Kyle Harvey) |
ID Code: | 127460 |
Year Published: | 2018 |
Deposited By: | College Office - CALE |
Deposited On: | 2018-07-30 |
Last Modified: | 2018-07-30 |
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