Barbara Deming - Life's Work

Life's Work

Deming openly believed that it was often those whom we loved that oppressed us, and that it was necessary to re-invent non-violent struggle every day.

It is often said that she created a body of non-violent theory, based on action and personal experience, that centered on the potential of non-violent struggle in its application to the women's movement.

• Deming, Barbara: Prison Notes. New York: Grossman Publishers, 1966.
• Deming, Barbara: On Revolution and Equilibrium. Liberation, February 1968. From the collection: ed. Staughton Lynd and Alice Lynd. Nonviolence in America: A Documentary History. Revised Edition. Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 1995.
• Deming, Barbara: Running Away from Myself: A Dream Portrait of America Drawn from the Movies of the Forties. New York: Grossman Publishers, 1969.
• Deming, Barbara; Berrigan, Daniel; Forest, James; Kunstler, William; Lynd, Staughton; Shaull, Richard; Statements of the Catonsville 9 and Milwaukee 14 Delivered Into Resistance The Advocate Press: 1969.
• Deming, Barbara: Revolution and Equilibrium. New York: Grossman Publishers, 1971.
• Deming, Barbara: Wash Us and Comb Us. New York: Grossman Publishers, 1972.
• Deming, Barbara: We Cannot Live Without Our Lives. New York: Grossman Publishers, 1974.
• Deming, Barbara: A Humming Under My Feet. London: Women's Press, 1974.
• Deming, Barbara: Remembering Who We Are. Tallahassee, FL: The Naiad Press, 1981.
• Deming, Barbara; Meyerding, Jane (Editor): We Are All Part of One Another a Barbara Deming Reader . Philadelphia: New Society Publishers, 1984.
• Deming, Barbara; McDaniel, Judith; Biren, Joan E.; Vanderlinde, Sky (Editor): Prisons That Could Not Hold . University of Georgia Press, 1995.
• Deming, Barbara; McDaniel, Judith (Editor) I Change, I Change: Poems. New Victoria Publishers, 1996.

In 1968, Deming signed the “Writers and Editors War Tax Protest” pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War.