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 39
Meanwhile the Soviet Union began to station nuclear weapons ( SS20s ) in
Eastern Europe . In December 1979 Carter persuaded NATO to take the '
twintrack ' decision . This amounted to an offer to enter into negotiations with the
Warsaw ...
Meanwhile the Soviet Union began to station nuclear weapons ( SS20s ) in
Eastern Europe . In December 1979 Carter persuaded NATO to take the '
twintrack ' decision . This amounted to an offer to enter into negotiations with the
Warsaw ...
Page 41
This initiative increased public expenditure on ' civil defence by 60 per cent and
backfired on the proponents of nuclear weapons . Booklets were distributed to
every home to tell the population about what to do in the event of a nuclear attack
.
This initiative increased public expenditure on ' civil defence by 60 per cent and
backfired on the proponents of nuclear weapons . Booklets were distributed to
every home to tell the population about what to do in the event of a nuclear attack
.
Page 54
Nuclear fear , and the anger this generated , were powerful driving motivators .
For some nuclear fear took a maternalist form , focusing on the threat to their
children , while for others it was experienced intensely personally as fear for their
own ...
Nuclear fear , and the anger this generated , were powerful driving motivators .
For some nuclear fear took a maternalist form , focusing on the threat to their
children , while for others it was experienced intensely personally as fear for their
own ...
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Contents
Common Women Uncommon Practices | 1 |
Genealogies of Greenham | 13 |
Beginnings | 38 |
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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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