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 152
As a collective action , it may be seen , therefore , as an example of what Gayatri
Spivak has called ' strategic essentialism ' 8 I ' ve never been a separatist . But I
thought Greenham had to be women - only . I wasn ' t a radical feminist .
As a collective action , it may be seen , therefore , as an example of what Gayatri
Spivak has called ' strategic essentialism ' 8 I ' ve never been a separatist . But I
thought Greenham had to be women - only . I wasn ' t a radical feminist .
Page 224
In addition , doing speaks was an empowering experience for many women who
had never before spoken in public . One of the wonderful things that Greenham
did for me personally was that I always lacked a kind of self - confidence .
In addition , doing speaks was an empowering experience for many women who
had never before spoken in public . One of the wonderful things that Greenham
did for me personally was that I always lacked a kind of self - confidence .
Page 307
But she never had any desire to live there and , despite being a lesbian , did not
feel drawn to the queer feminist community of the camp . Her sexual politics
remained very different from those which held sway at Greenham . I ' d been a
lesbian ...
But she never had any desire to live there and , despite being a lesbian , did not
feel drawn to the queer feminist community of the camp . Her sexual politics
remained very different from those which held sway at Greenham . I ' d been a
lesbian ...
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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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