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Taylor, Carole (2022) Inheriting the Goddess – continuity or change? Have the values and beliefs of the Goddess movement that formed the spiritual foundation of Greenham Common women’s peace camp in the nineteen-eighties, informed women’s climate change activism in the contemporary Extinction Rebellion movement? Masters thesis, University of Gloucestershire. doi:10.46289/9NE98WE5
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Abstract
This thesis provides an ethnographic exploration of the British Feminist movement as it has evolved over the last forty years. Specifically, this research examines the Goddess movement that underpinned women’s anti-nuclear activism at Greenham Common women’s peace camp in the nineteen-eighties and considers whether it has continued to inform the spiritual world of female climate change activists involved in Extinction Rebellion (hereafter referred to as XR) since two-thousand-and-eighteen. This reflective ethnographic approach, based on focused field research among women directly involved in related activism, has been framed by the works of Robert A Orsi (2007, 2008, 2013) and suggests that the presence of the Goddess during the Greenham actions was very much part of the overall spiritual experience and, indeed, motivation to act. Furthermore, I will draw on the work of Donovan O Schaefer (2015) and examine the role of grief in relation to affect theory as it has underpinned women’s activism from anti-nuclear to climate change crisis over the past four decades. I have approached this thesis primarily as a historical enquiry into Goddess feminism at Greenham Common women’s peace camp, comparing it with Goddess feminism in XR, expecting to find that the values and spiritual beliefs in relation to the Goddess would be little changed in forty years. I have used a reflexive ethnographic approach with the collection of qualitative data through recorded interviews, to understand the lives and similarities between Goddess feminists four decades apart. These interviews and observations, which provide the backbone of my research, have revealed rich and informative testimony from my informants, which I hope will add considerably to the fairly limited body of work on the Goddess at Greenham and, to a lesser extent, in XR.
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Goddess Movement; Goddess feminism; Women’s anti-nuclear activism; Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp, England; Extinction Rebellion (XR) | |||||||||
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BV Practical Theology | |||||||||
| Divisions: | Schools and Research Institutes > School of Creative Arts | |||||||||
| Research Priority Areas: | Culture, Continuity, and Transformation | |||||||||
| Depositing User: | Susan Turner | |||||||||
| Date Deposited: | 18 Apr 2024 09:16 | |||||||||
| Last Modified: | 30 Apr 2024 15:18 | |||||||||
| URI: | https://eprints.glos.ac.uk/id/eprint/13971 |
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