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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They introduced 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 ...
They introduced 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 ...
Page 123
women , of prioritizing women ' s desires , ideas and choices in a culture which
tends to prioritize men ' s desires over women ' s . VALUING REFLEXIVITY AND
CHANGE were Greenham ' s democracy of the present contributed to an ongoing
...
women , of prioritizing women ' s desires , ideas and choices in a culture which
tends to prioritize men ' s desires over women ' s . VALUING REFLEXIVITY AND
CHANGE were Greenham ' s democracy of the present contributed to an ongoing
...
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But I don ' t identify totally with the feminist 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 ...
But I don ' t identify totally with the feminist 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 ...
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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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