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 121
There was an expectation that individuals should be reflexive , that they should
question and monitor their own behaviour , and that they should be prepared to
change . An openness to and concern for the opinions and desires of others , and
...
There was an expectation that individuals should be reflexive , that they should
question and monitor their own behaviour , and that they should be prepared to
change . An openness to and concern for the opinions and desires of others , and
...
Page 141
The debates and conflicts which I focus on in this chapter , and which I consider
to have been the most significant at Greenham , hinge on the question of the
meaning of the designation ' women ' ' Women ' were named as the actors and ...
The debates and conflicts which I focus on in this chapter , and which I consider
to have been the most significant at Greenham , hinge on the question of the
meaning of the designation ' women ' ' Women ' were named as the actors and ...
Page 263
And I think for hundreds of women that must have been quite a thing . . . And
seeing policemen break women ' s arms , and things like that . . . I was brought up
with a respect for authority . Rowan Gwedhen It ' s made me question things more
...
And I think for hundreds of women that must have been quite a thing . . . And
seeing policemen break women ' s arms , and things like that . . . I was brought up
with a respect for authority . Rowan Gwedhen It ' s made me question things more
...
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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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