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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There were two sorts : mass blockades , ' planned ' in advance , in which women
were invited to participate ; and spontaneous blockades , which arose in direct
response to unforeseen events in the base or at the camp . Mass blockades ,
such ...
There were two sorts : mass blockades , ' planned ' in advance , in which women
were invited to participate ; and spontaneous blockades , which arose in direct
response to unforeseen events in the base or at the camp . Mass blockades ,
such ...
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were stationed every few hundred yards around the base , searchlights were
installed , watch towers built , and extra fences and rolls of razor wire placed
inside the fence . In November 1983 , when Cruise arrived , the Secretary of State
for ...
were stationed every few hundred yards around the base , searchlights were
installed , watch towers built , and extra fences and rolls of razor wire placed
inside the fence . In November 1983 , when Cruise arrived , the Secretary of State
for ...
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... states were busy trying to keep them from breaking into the base . The base as
a whole was under the control of the United States Air Force and the security of
its contents - from the runway and air traffic control tower , to aeroplanes and ...
... states were busy trying to keep them from breaking into the base . The base as
a whole was under the control of the United States Air Force and the security of
its contents - from the runway and air traffic control tower , to aeroplanes and ...
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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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