{"product_id":"over-our-dead-bodies-women-against-the-bomb-edited-by-dorothy-thompson","title":"'Over Our Dead Bodies: Women Against the Bomb' edited by Dorothy Thompson","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"\" data-turn-id-container=\"request-6a5d7430-35d8-83ec-8537-639937f3e813-10\" data-is-intersecting=\"true\"\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"text-token-text-primary w-full focus:outline-none has-data-writing-block:pointer-events-none [\u0026amp;:has([data-writing-block])\u0026gt;*]:pointer-events-auto R6Vx5W_threadScrollVars scroll-mb-[calc(var(--scroll-root-safe-area-inset-bottom,0px)+var(--thread-response-height))] scroll-mt-[calc(var(--header-height)+min(200px,max(70px,20svh)))]\" dir=\"auto\" data-turn-id=\"request-6a5d7430-35d8-83ec-8537-639937f3e813-10\" data-turn-id-container=\"request-6a5d7430-35d8-83ec-8537-639937f3e813-10\" data-testid=\"conversation-turn-92\" data-turn=\"assistant\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text-base my-auto mx-auto pb-15 [--thread-content-margin:var(--thread-content-margin-xs,calc(var(--spacing)*4))] @w-sm\/main:[--thread-content-margin:var(--thread-content-margin-sm,calc(var(--spacing)*6))] @w-lg\/main:[--thread-content-margin:var(--thread-content-margin-lg,calc(var(--spacing)*16))] px-(--thread-content-margin)\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-conversation-screenshot-content=\"\" class=\"[--thread-content-max-width:40rem] @w-lg\/main:[--thread-content-max-width:48rem] mx-auto max-w-(--thread-content-max-width) flex-1 group\/turn-messages focus-visible:outline-hidden relative flex w-full min-w-0 flex-col agent-turn\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"flex max-w-full flex-col gap-4 grow\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-message-author-role=\"assistant\" data-message-id=\"98aae813-676f-47b4-8a5a-76875c48500b\" data-turn-start-message=\"true\" dir=\"auto\" data-message-model-slug=\"gpt-5-6-thinking\" class=\"min-h-8 text-message relative flex w-full flex-col items-end gap-2 text-start break-words whitespace-normal outline-none keyboard-focused:focus-ring [.text-message+\u0026amp;]:mt-1\" tabindex=\"0\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"flex w-full flex-col gap-1 empty:hidden\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"markdown prose dark:prose-invert wrap-break-word w-full light markdown-new-styling\"\u003e\n\u003ch4 data-start=\"78\" data-end=\"570\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eVirago organised a major public rally around the book upon its publication, making it part of the movement it describes rather than a retrospective account produced safely afterward. \u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"78\" data-end=\"570\"\u003ePublished at the height of the renewed nuclear-arms race, \u003cem data-start=\"136\" data-end=\"158\"\u003eOver Our Dead Bodies\u003c\/em\u003e gathers essays, testimony, poems and political argument by women opposing nuclear weapons and the machinery built to make their use imaginable. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"572\" data-end=\"1185\"\u003eThe collection grew from the British women’s peace movement surrounding Greenham Common, but its field is wider than a record of one protest camp. Contributors including Bel Mooney, Jeanette Burski, Gay Clifford, Beryl Rule and Dorothy Thompson examine deterrence, civil defence, the physical effects of nuclear attack and the political language used to domesticate mass death. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eIts contributors approach the bomb not merely as a question of military strategy but as a social system: one sustained by secrecy, obedience, masculine authority and the bureaucratic talent for discussing annihilation as though it were infrastructure policy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"572\" data-end=\"1185\"\u003eThompson’s own essays dismantle the fantasy that those accumulating weapons are also capable of protecting the populations placed beneath them. The title is not rhetorical flourish so much as a literal correction to official reasoning. It captures anti-nuclear politics before it could be tidied into heritage: impatient, internally varied and intent on connecting militarism with the organisation of ordinary life. \u003cspan class=\"\" data-state=\"closed\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1706\" data-end=\"1821\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVirago Press first edition, 1983. Paperback with light rubbing, handling marks and mild edgewear; clean, firm copy.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45860457316435,"sku":null,"price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Yourparagraphtext-2026-07-24T125303.633.png?v=1784861608","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/over-our-dead-bodies-women-against-the-bomb-edited-by-dorothy-thompson","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}