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Cultural formation | Zoë Fairbairns | She is an English feminist who has allowed little information about her family origins to be known. In a lecture given in Spain she said she came from a middle-class background, and in a lecture... |
Cultural formation | Pat Arrowsmith | Though politics bulked much less large in her childhood than religion, it had some presence. Her mother was a snob about class, but an ill-defined pacifist, who later wore a CND
badge and donated money... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Jackie Kay | |
politics | Jennifer Dawson | JD
was active in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
. She wrote: Politics creep, burst inevitably into my novels. They then become shrill, rhetorical, routine, etc. Brown, Susan Windisch, editor. Contemporary Novelists. 6th ed., St James Press, 1996. 247-8 |
politics | Doris Lessing | DL
helped to organise the first Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
march to the nuclear facility at Aldermaston, which took place on 4-7 April. Maslen, Elizabeth. Doris Lessing. Northcote House, 1994. viii |
politics | Zoë Fairbairns | ZF
sees information as critical to understanding and politically aware action, and her work highlights aspects of contemporary living and of women's experience in ways which inform judgement. She seeks to explores tensions between feminist... |
politics | Ann Oakley | By her late teens she herself was a socialist. She was a member of Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
(CND), and later of the associated Committee of 100
. Oakley, Ann. Taking It like a Woman. Flamingo, 1992. 21-2 |
politics | Pamela Frankau | PF
involved herself seriously in the work of CND (the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
). The British Library of Political and Economic Science
at the |
politics | Dora Russell | The Council for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons
(forerunner of CND) was founded. DR
was present at its inaugural meeting next day; other prominent members were Vera Brittain
, Julian Huxley
, J. B. Priestley |
politics | Dora Russell | A year later the council's name was changed to the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
(CND
).Though she was involved with the organization for some time, DR
was dissatisfied with what she saw as its... |
politics | Pat Arrowsmith | PA
worked as an organizer for the Direct Action Committee Against Nuclear War
, the Committee of 100
and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
(CND). Who’s Who. Adam and Charles Black, 1849–2024, Annual Volumes. |
politics | Michèle Roberts | Not long afterwards, she and her friends in London were pursuing street politics to the left of the Labour Party
, like mounting a carnival float at a CND
festival to represent and caricature Real... |
politics | Pat Arrowsmith | PA
was secretary for the first Aldermaston March of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
(CND), from London to the weapons establishment in Berkshire. Sage, Lorna, editor. The Cambridge Guide to Women’s Writing in English. Cambridge University Press, 1999. 21 “A history of the CND logo”. CND: Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. |
politics | Ruth Rendell | During the 1980s RR
was active in support both of the Labour Party
and of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
. Later she was involved with Emily's List
(founded in February 1993 with the aim... |
politics | Maggie Gee | By 1981 she became a committed anti-nuclear protester and CND
member. Gee, Maggie. “Serious Fun”. Mslexia, No. 59, Sept. 2013, pp. 12-13. 13 |