Common Women, Uncommon Practices: The Queer Feminisms of GreenhamThis is the story of a group of women of various ages, backgrounds, nationalities, and sexual orientations who met at the US Airforce base at Greenham Common. Based on in-depth interviews and her own personal experience, Sasha Roseneil reveals how their challenges to traditional values, politics, and lifestyles signaled a bold step forward for queer feminist politics. The voices of the women are strong, lively, engaging, and often very funny. The remembrances of their exciting, life-changing times at Greenham captures a moment in history when ordinary women did some extraordinary things. |
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The geographical location of each of the gates and their relative significance to
the operations of the base influenced the survival of some camps and the closure
of others . Yellow Gate and Blue Gate were , for a long time , the two most ...
The geographical location of each of the gates and their relative significance to
the operations of the base influenced the survival of some camps and the closure
of others . Yellow Gate and Blue Gate were , for a long time , the two most ...
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Blue Gate , as the gate closest to Newbury , was the gate at which many younger
women first arrived who had travelled to Greenham alone by public transport or
hitching ; many of them were working - class , from the north of England and ...
Blue Gate , as the gate closest to Newbury , was the gate at which many younger
women first arrived who had travelled to Greenham alone by public transport or
hitching ; many of them were working - class , from the north of England and ...
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lesbians , or all the young women , or all the working - class women at Greenham
lived at Blue Gate , nor that all the women at Green Gate were interested in
feminist spirituality . There were lesbians and working - class women at all the
gates ...
lesbians , or all the young women , or all the working - class women at Greenham
lived at Blue Gate , nor that all the women at Green Gate were interested in
feminist spirituality . There were lesbians and working - class women at all the
gates ...
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Contents
Common Women Uncommon Practices | 1 |
Genealogies of Greenham | 13 |
Beginnings | 38 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Common Women, Uncommon Practices: The Queer Feminisms of Greenham Lesbian and Gay Studies |
| Author | Sasha Roseneil |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Cassell, 2000 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 29 May 2008 |
| ISBN | 0304335541, 9780304335541 |
| Length | 340 pages |
| Subjects | › Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory |
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