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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Page 75
I think Yellow Gate became a lot of individual people as opposed to a communal
thing . Towards the end of 1983 , with the missiles arriving and the numbers of
women at Greenham increasing daily , Rowan and another woman from Yellow ...
I think Yellow Gate became a lot of individual people as opposed to a communal
thing . Towards the end of 1983 , with the missiles arriving and the numbers of
women at Greenham increasing daily , Rowan and another woman from Yellow ...
Page 83
That ' s why I never went to Green Gate . Margery Lewis Conflict at Greenham
over power and resources was often formulated in terms of the disproportionate
power and influence of Yellow Gate . Jinny List , for instance , saw Yellow Gate
as ...
That ' s why I never went to Green Gate . Margery Lewis Conflict at Greenham
over power and resources was often formulated in terms of the disproportionate
power and influence of Yellow Gate . Jinny List , for instance , saw Yellow Gate
as ...
Page 84
So we really had nothing to do with Yellow Gate because we couldn ' t stand
them . There were one or two people I knew and liked . Penny Gulliver As the first
camp at Greenham , outside the main entrance to the base , Main Gate was the ...
So we really had nothing to do with Yellow Gate because we couldn ' t stand
them . There were one or two people I knew and liked . Penny Gulliver As the first
camp at Greenham , outside the main entrance to the base , Main Gate was the ...
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Contents
Common Women Uncommon Practices | 1 |
Genealogies of Greenham | 13 |
Beginnings | 38 |
Copyright | |
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Common Women, Uncommon Practices: The Queer Feminisms of Greenham Sasha Roseneil No preview available - 2000 |
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