Common Women, Uncommon Practices: The Queer Feminisms of GreenhamThis is a book about how individual, social, political and cultural change is created through the actions of ordinary women. It is about a unique community of women where conventions were overturned and lives transformed, and it is about a social movement in which tens of thousands of women confronted the police and military to resist the momentum towards nuclear war. The women's peace camp at Greenham Common represented a new direction for feminism in Britain, a queer post-modern feminism which broke with tradition and destabilized certainties. This book weaves together stories of life at Greeham with analysis of its politics. The voices of Greenham women describe living outdoors, in all weathers, in a diverse and ever-changing community of strong-minded women - the pleasures and the problems. Tales of actions and arrest, court and prison are told, and the changes wrought by these experiences are explored. Women speak of the transformations in their lives which took place at Greenham, of sex and sexuality, relationships, friendship and love. |
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Page 27
... ideas and forms of action which Greenham was able to draw upon and , though most had passed their peak by the early 1980s , their presence was still tangible ; they were not yet dead and buried . These movements wove together in new ...
... ideas and forms of action which Greenham was able to draw upon and , though most had passed their peak by the early 1980s , their presence was still tangible ; they were not yet dead and buried . These movements wove together in new ...
Page 123
... ideas emerged . Nothing was handed down unquestioned . Dissent and disagreement were seen as potentially productive and dynamic , as producing movement and change and preventing ossification . The modernist desire for order , discipline ...
... ideas emerged . Nothing was handed down unquestioned . Dissent and disagreement were seen as potentially productive and dynamic , as producing movement and change and preventing ossification . The modernist desire for order , discipline ...
Page 155
... idea of separatism . I think the way forward is for men to change their ideas . And for all this male hierarchical structure which is so destructive to go . But I divorce that from men , from men as men , as people . I think they're ...
... idea of separatism . I think the way forward is for men to change their ideas . And for all this male hierarchical structure which is so destructive to go . But I divorce that from men , from men as men , as people . I think they're ...
Contents
Common Women Uncommon Practices | 1 |
Genealogies of Greenham | 13 |
Beginnings | 38 |
Copyright | |
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Common Women, Uncommon Practices: The Queer Feminisms of Greenham Sasha Roseneil No preview available - 2000 |
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