Over Our Dead Bodies: Women against the bomb
by THOMPSON, Dorothy (editor); CARTER, Angela; LIDDLETON, Jill; MOWLAM, Marjorie (contributors)
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- Very Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Virago Press Limited, 1983. Paperback. Very Good. FIRST EDITION. Trade paperback, pp. xiii, 253, [3], incl. b/w headpieces and illustrations. Black wrappers, lettered in white and pink. Light edgewear, tanned edges, a few spots to top edge. Gently toned, else, clean and tight. A lovely copy of this important Virago collection, with commissioned contributions challenging nuclear weapons in Britain. Very good Featuring 'The Women's Peace Crusade' by Jill Liddington, 'Fuel for the Nuclear Arms Race' by Mo Mowlam, an illustration by Edith Simon, and 'Anger in a Black Landscape' by Angela Carter. In her essay, the novelist urged women to protest and "rage as if against the dying of the light". The British Library holds a section of wire cut from RAF Greenham Common's perimeter fence that was sent to Carter by the Women's Peace Camp. Contributors include a wider group of women than those who wrote essays, including documentary filmmaker Jill Craigie.
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- Bookseller
- Quair Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2468
- Title
- Over Our Dead Bodies: Women against the bomb
- Author
- THOMPSON, Dorothy (editor); CARTER, Angela; LIDDLETON, Jill; MOWLAM, Marjorie (contributors)
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Virago Press Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1983
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