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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In 1981 , when the camp was set up , there were eight vehicle gates and one
pedestrian gate into the base and a number of gaps ( sections of fence which
could be rolled back to allow access for vehicles ) . 4 THE HISTORY OF THE
GATES At ...
In 1981 , when the camp was set up , there were eight vehicle gates and one
pedestrian gate into the base and a number of gaps ( sections of fence which
could be rolled back to allow access for vehicles ) . 4 THE HISTORY OF THE
GATES At ...
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thought it really insulting to women who were not at camp all the time , but were
stood on street corners in the pouring rain , who were being just as vilified , and
that wasn ' t recognized . There was all this nonsense about you ' re not a proper
...
thought it really insulting to women who were not at camp all the time , but were
stood on street corners in the pouring rain , who were being just as vilified , and
that wasn ' t recognized . There was all this nonsense about you ' re not a proper
...
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The camp ' s public presence outside the base constituted its most powerful
statement of resistance to nuclear weapons and ensured that the installation of
Cruise missiles could not be kept quiet . From the earliest days of British
involvement ...
The camp ' s public presence outside the base constituted its most powerful
statement of resistance to nuclear weapons and ensured that the installation of
Cruise missiles could not be kept quiet . From the earliest days of British
involvement ...
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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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