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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Inspired by the Gandhian movement in India , non - violent direct action was the
chosen strategy of many of those in the anti - nuclear movement in Britain in the
late 1950s and early 1960s and in the civil rights movement in the US . In
addition ...
Inspired by the Gandhian movement in India , non - violent direct action was the
chosen strategy of many of those in the anti - nuclear movement in Britain in the
late 1950s and early 1960s and in the civil rights movement in the US . In
addition ...
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Margery Lewis I think it [ Greenham being women - only ) made a tremendous
difference when you were involved in the direct action . It definitely made a
difference . I ' ve always found it very difficult to be in any non - violent direct
action with ...
Margery Lewis I think it [ Greenham being women - only ) made a tremendous
difference when you were involved in the direct action . It definitely made a
difference . I ' ve always found it very difficult to be in any non - violent direct
action with ...
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5 Blockades wer Blockades were the first form of non - violent direct action to be
undertaken at Greenham and they became a regular part of the repertoire of
action for the first few years . There 200 Common Women , Uncommon Practices.
5 Blockades wer Blockades were the first form of non - violent direct action to be
undertaken at Greenham and they became a regular part of the repertoire of
action for the first few years . There 200 Common Women , Uncommon Practices.
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Contents
Common Women Uncommon Practices | 1 |
Genealogies of Greenham | 13 |
Beginnings | 38 |
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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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