Name/TitleThe Hooker & The Beak: A Time To Break the Law?
MakerHipperson, Sarah & Lopez-Jones, Nina
Maker RoleAuthor
About this objectSlim booklet with bright green covers titled 'The Hooker & The Beak: A Time To Break the Law?' Published by the King's Cross Women's Centre, the booklet contains articles based on two speeches given at a women's forum, "Counting Women's Work for Peace", held in Bristol on 8th July 1986. The articles are: 'Whores Against Wars' by Nina Lopez-Jones, English Collective of Prostitutes, and 'Gamekeeper Turned Poacher' by Sarah Hipperson, Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp.
Fully digitised (20 pages)
Medium and MaterialsOrganic, paper
MeasurementsH: 205 x W: 136 mm
Date Made1987
Period1980s
Place MadeEngland, London
Place NotesKing's Cross Women's Centre, PO Box 287, London NW6 5QU
PublisherKing's Cross Women's Centre
Publication DateSeptember 1987
Publication PlaceEngland, London
Series TitleCentrepieces
Number in Series5
Subject and Association Descriptionhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Hipperson:
Sarah Hipperson (née Hanlon) (born in Glasgow, 1927 – 8 October 2018) was a midwife, magistrate and peace campaigner who spent 17 years living at the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp on RAF Greenham Common protesting against the siting of American nuclear cruise missiles in the United Kingdom. In 1982, she founded Catholic Peace Action. Her nonviolent resistance resulted in over 20 imprisonments and several appearances in court. She lived to see the transformation of Greenham Common back into use by the public and was one of the last four women to leave the camp. She appeared as herself in the documentary Margaret Thatcher: The Woman Who Changed Britain. In Hipperson's book, Greenham Common: Non-Violent Women v The Crown Prerogative, she documented her legal challenges during her anti-war campaigning.
https://prostitutescollective.net:
The English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP) is a grassroots organisation of sex workers and supporters campaigning for the decriminalisation of prostitution, for sex workers’ rights and safety, and for resources to enable people to get out of prostitution if they want to. Our network includes sex workers working on the street and in premises.
Subject and Association KeywordsPeace movement
Subject and Association KeywordsEnvironment - ecology
Subject and Association KeywordsEcofeminism
Subject and Association Keywordsanti-nuclear activism
Subject and Association Keywordsanti-war
Subject and Association Keywordswomen's work & labour
Subject and Association KeywordsGreenham Common
Named CollectionGlasgow Women's Library
Object TypeBooklet
ISBN/ISSN0 9512695 0 X
Object numberGWL-2015-47-7
Copyright LicenceAll rights reserved