Banning the Bomb, Smashing the Patriarchy

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1. "Terminally Unserious": Ideologies and Oppressions of Nuclear Weapons

Chapter 2. Rage Against the Bomb: A Brief History of Antinuclear Efforts

Chapter 3. Reclaiming Our Time: Changing Discourse, Changing Minds

Chapter 4. Karaoke and Campaigning: Building a Case and a Community

Chapter 5. Revitalizing a Movement

Chapter 6. From Deterrence to Disarmament: How the Humanitarian Initiative Disrupted the Nuclear Weapon Orthodoxy

Chapter 7. Courage, My Love: How Nuclear-Free States Fought for the Ban

Chapter 8. Getting Our Ban On, Part One: The What

Chapter 9. Getting Our Ban On, Part Two: The How

Conclusion

Bibliography

Ray Acheson is currently Program Director, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, New York. As Director of WILPF's disarmament program, Reaching Critical Will, I lead the organization's work on stigmatizing war and violence, advocating for disarmament and arms control, and raising gender perspectives on militarism and weapons. I provide analysis, reporting, research, and advocacy across of range of issues, including nuclear weapons, armed drones, autonomous weapons, small arms, the arms trade, and the use of explosive weapons in populated areas. I represent WILPF within the International Steering Group of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), which won the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize. For ICAN, I worked closely with other activist partners and with governments to develop the key strategies and advocacy for the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons from 2010 to 2017, when the Treaty was negotiated and adopted at the United Nations. SELECTED WORKS ¿ TEDx Talk: Feminism and nuclear weapons, 6 December 2018 ¿ "The gender and disarmament nexus recognized," Forum on the Arms Trade, 19 December 2018 ¿ "A feminist critique of the atomic bomb," Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, 12 October 2018 ¿ "To preserve our humanity, we must ban killer robots," The Nation, 1 October 2018 ¿ "Impacts of the nuclear ban: how outlawing nuclear weapons is changing the world," Global Change, Peace and Security 30:2, 3 May 2018 ¿ "The nuclear ban and the patriarchy: a feminist analysis of opposition to prohibiting nuclear weapons," Critical Studies on Security, 30 April 2018 ¿ "A new generation against the bomb," The Nation, 27 April 2018 ¿ "Resisting nuclear weapons means resisting injustice and oppression," The Nation, 2 February 2018 ¿ "We Need A Complete Nuclear-Weapons Ban," The Nation, 18 January 2018 ¿ "Women and the ban the bomb movement," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 15 June 2017 ¿ "Political action to end the use of explosive weapons in populated