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 74
This became increasingly important once the convoy of missile launchers and
support vehicles began to be taken out of the base on night exercises . Night
watches at camps all around the base meant that the exit of the convoy could be
...
This became increasingly important once the convoy of missile launchers and
support vehicles began to be taken out of the base on night exercises . Night
watches at camps all around the base meant that the exit of the convoy could be
...
Page 93
Over time some women became very skilled bender builders , and helped
newcomers to make their own , thus passing on the skills of the trade . It was
important to choose the right location for a bender - not too close to the fire and
the hub of ...
Over time some women became very skilled bender builders , and helped
newcomers to make their own , thus passing on the skills of the trade . It was
important to choose the right location for a bender - not too close to the fire and
the hub of ...
Page 237
In all , evictions became something of a routine ` cat and mouse ' game , a
regular form of harassment , and although they may have shortened the length of
time individual women were able to live at Greenham , they never achieved the
goal ...
In all , evictions became something of a routine ` cat and mouse ' game , a
regular form of harassment , and although they may have shortened the length of
time individual women were able to live at Greenham , they never achieved the
goal ...
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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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