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 54
... less rational , emotional and more submerged impulses which drive our actions . And so it was with Greenham . Most women , when asked directly , would proffer the most obvious and acceptable reason for their involvement : to protest ...
... less rational , emotional and more submerged impulses which drive our actions . And so it was with Greenham . Most women , when asked directly , would proffer the most obvious and acceptable reason for their involvement : to protest ...
Page 76
... less comfortable gates at which to live . Women were closer to the fence , to the soldiers , and hence to harassment , and had less privacy . Green Gate occupied by the far the most tranquil and beautiful location ( in woods ) , but ...
... less comfortable gates at which to live . Women were closer to the fence , to the soldiers , and hence to harassment , and had less privacy . Green Gate occupied by the far the most tranquil and beautiful location ( in woods ) , but ...
Page 181
... less and less time at Greenham , but come back and talk about it . But at Orange Gate there were quite a lot of old lags who knew about Wages for Housework , and just wouldn't get involved in it . But it was guilt , all guilt . If you ...
... less and less time at Greenham , but come back and talk about it . But at Orange Gate there were quite a lot of old lags who knew about Wages for Housework , and just wouldn't get involved in it . But it was guilt , all guilt . If you ...
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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