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 94
I ' d stick my head under the umbrella , pathetic isn ' t it ? ( laughter ) . Katrina
Allen WARMTH The focus of life at every gate was the fire . Lit every morning and
kept going all day even in the summer , the fire was a vital source of warmth on ...
I ' d stick my head under the umbrella , pathetic isn ' t it ? ( laughter ) . Katrina
Allen WARMTH The focus of life at every gate was the fire . Lit every morning and
kept going all day even in the summer , the fire was a vital source of warmth on ...
Page 96
Breakfasts tended to be on a self - serve basis , with everyone foraging for muesli
or toasting bread on the fire for herself . Sometimes , particularly at the smaller
camps , one or two women would cook breakfast for everyone , maybe porridge
or ...
Breakfasts tended to be on a self - serve basis , with everyone foraging for muesli
or toasting bread on the fire for herself . Sometimes , particularly at the smaller
camps , one or two women would cook breakfast for everyone , maybe porridge
or ...
Page 175
hitched home and hitched back because they didn ' t have the money and most of
us had lost our boots , because your feet used to be so cold you ' d put them near
the fire and somebody would say , your boots are on fire , your feet are on fire .
hitched home and hitched back because they didn ' t have the money and most of
us had lost our boots , because your feet used to be so cold you ' d put them near
the fire and somebody would say , your boots are on fire , your feet are on fire .
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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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