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 42
All this meant that as information about the extent of US military activities in
Britain was gathered and disseminated , a sense of subject - nation status arose
and augmented anger about the issue . Popular culture at this time was suffused
with ...
All this meant that as information about the extent of US military activities in
Britain was gathered and disseminated , a sense of subject - nation status arose
and augmented anger about the issue . Popular culture at this time was suffused
with ...
Page 132
In its opposition to nuclear militarism Greenham opted out of the modernist
discourse about nuclear weapons which was accepted both by the military and
by the mainstream peace movement , and refused to engage with the techno -
strategic ...
In its opposition to nuclear militarism Greenham opted out of the modernist
discourse about nuclear weapons which was accepted both by the military and
by the mainstream peace movement , and refused to engage with the techno -
strategic ...
Page 228
Men were seeking to extinguish the major visible expression of women ' s
collective voice on matters of military policy , to re - establish the situation where
decisions about nuclear weapons were taken by small , secret groups of military
men ...
Men were seeking to extinguish the major visible expression of women ' s
collective voice on matters of military policy , to re - establish the situation where
decisions about nuclear weapons were taken by small , secret groups of military
men ...
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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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