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 89
And three of us in this tiny tent froze for three nights . Now I think , after that I ... But
for those three nights I was freezing . The next three days ... The second night we
were doing an action - we were painting the runway . They had this meeting ...
And three of us in this tiny tent froze for three nights . Now I think , after that I ... But
for those three nights I was freezing . The next three days ... The second night we
were doing an action - we were painting the runway . They had this meeting ...
Page 238
For instance , there were periods when officers commanded their men to blow
horns or bang oil drums every quarter of an hour throughout the night . Others did
drill calls at first light and brought brass instrument players to the fence to play ...
For instance , there were periods when officers commanded their men to blow
horns or bang oil drums every quarter of an hour throughout the night . Others did
drill calls at first light and brought brass instrument players to the fence to play ...
Page 300
I spent the night in a tent with a very good friend of mine whom I ' d got close to
over the last year , and laid awake all night in the tent with this woman , thinking ,
oooh . And finally when dawn was breaking , I thought , this is just crazy . I ' ve
just ...
I spent the night in a tent with a very good friend of mine whom I ' d got close to
over the last year , and laid awake all night in the tent with this woman , thinking ,
oooh . And finally when dawn was breaking , I thought , this is just crazy . I ' ve
just ...
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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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