You can’t kill the spirit’ (but you can try): Gendered contestations and contradictions at Menwith Hill women’s peace camp

Mackay, Finn

Abstract

This groundbreaking collection interrogates protest camps as sites of gendered politics and feminist activism.

Drawing on case studies that range from Cold War women-only peace camps to more recent mixed-gender examples from around the world, diverse contributors reflect on the recurrence of gendered, racialised and heteronormative structures in protest camps, and their potency and politics as feminist spaces.

While developing an intersectional analysis of the possibilities and limitations of protest camps, this book also tells new and inspiring stories of feminist organising and agency. It will appeal to feminist theorists and activists, as well as to social movement scholars.

Citation

Mackay, F. (2023). You can’t kill the spirit’ (but you can try): Gendered contestations and contradictions at Menwith Hill women’s peace camp. In Feminism and Protest Camps Entanglements, Critiques and Re-Imaginings. Bristol: Policy Press

• Acceptance Date: May 1, 2022
• Online Publication Date: Jan 31, 2023
• Publication Date: Jan 31, 2023
• Deposit Date: Jun 5, 2023
• Publicly Available Date: Feb 1, 2025
• Publisher: Policy Press
• Edition: 1st
• Book Title: Feminism and Protest Camps Entanglements, Critiques and Re-Imaginings
• Chapter Number: 4
• ISBN: 9781529220162
• Keywords: Gender; Menwith Hill; Feminism; Protest Camps
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/10839022
• Publisher URL: https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/feminism-and-protest-camps