Isabel María García Conesa

LAS MUJERES DE GREENHAM COMMON: EL “SÍ SE PUDO” DE LOS 80

Ecofeminism is a stream of environmental thinking of feminist approach which appeared in Europe in the last third of the twentieth century, and which is characterized by the diversity of sub-currents in the socio-cultural, political and activist fields, among others. Ecofeminism proposes that both the feminist movement and the environmental movement have common goals such as equal rights or the abolition of hierarchies, and that they work together in building theoretical and practical alternatives, as it has occurred in some previous occasion. It is precisely in this context that we can place the women of Greenham Common, whom will be the ones that focus our attention on this article. We must not forget the experience of these women who opposed, for years, the U.S. military base with nuclear missiles at the base of the same name in England. Consequently, what we will be analyzing in depth throughout this article is the role played by this group of women in England along the eighties. We shall study their actions, how, where and why, but mostly, we will focus our attention on the consequences that their actions might have later on both for themselves and for the eco-feminist movement itself and society in general.