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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Carmel Cadden The first mass fence - cutting , which took place on 29 October
1983 , the Saturday closest to Hallowe ' en and just weeks before the first Cruise
missiles were flown in , illustrated the ( dis ) organized spontaneity which ...
Carmel Cadden The first mass fence - cutting , which took place on 29 October
1983 , the Saturday closest to Hallowe ' en and just weeks before the first Cruise
missiles were flown in , illustrated the ( dis ) organized spontaneity which ...
Page 196
Tens of thousands of women responded to the camp ' s suggestion that they
bring symbols of their hopes and fears to decorate the fence and within hours the
nine - mile perimeter fence was transformed into a giant art installation .
Tens of thousands of women responded to the camp ' s suggestion that they
bring symbols of their hopes and fears to decorate the fence and within hours the
nine - mile perimeter fence was transformed into a giant art installation .
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A few women who came over the fence later got caught . But I was with the first
group over , and they got me and shoved me in the back of an American police
car . And then realized that there were too many women and they couldn ' t do ...
A few women who came over the fence later got caught . But I was with the first
group over , and they got me and shoved me in the back of an American police
car . And then realized that there were too many women and they couldn ' t do ...
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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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