Banning the Bomb, Smashing the Patriarchy - Paperback

by Ray Acheson (Author)

This book looks inside the antinuclear movement and its successful campaign to ban the bomb. From scrappy organizing to winning the Nobel Peace Prize and achieving a landmark UN treaty banning nuclear weapons, Acheson narrates the journey of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and developments in feminist disarmament activism.

Author Biography

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.