They stood up for the human future against militarism and annihilation by searing heat and radiation. The memoir tells the story of her childhood in rural Hampshire, her socialist father, her growth into radicalism (and feminism), her embrace of her lesbianism, and, centrally, her short time at the Greenham Common peace camp, where women-mothers, daughters, sisters, radical feminists, spiritual hippie lesbians and Wiccans-spent twenty years camped out in front of the nuclear base, run by the US on British soil.ĭefying the regnant nuclear madness of the 1980s, these women took nonviolent direct action. Davies was a warrior in her own way, committed to the fight against humanity’s stupidest invention. Stephanie Davies’ recent memoir Other Girls Like Me is a moving, deeply personal account of one of the great protest movements against nuclear weapons.
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