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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Simone Wilkinson THE SILOS ACTION After the occupation of the sentry box ,
which took the police completely by surprise , the guarding of the main gate was
stepped up and actions remained largely focused outside the base until the Silos
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Simone Wilkinson THE SILOS ACTION After the occupation of the sentry box ,
which took the police completely by surprise , the guarding of the main gate was
stepped up and actions remained largely focused outside the base until the Silos
...
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Carol Harwood The Silos Action went down in Greenham ' s collective memory
as a ' top action ' , and those who missed it regretted it sorely . The Silos Action is
one of the most painful memories of my life . I didn ' t make it to the silos .
Carol Harwood The Silos Action went down in Greenham ' s collective memory
as a ' top action ' , and those who missed it regretted it sorely . The Silos Action is
one of the most painful memories of my life . I didn ' t make it to the silos .
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... cutting action 211 - 12 on heterosexuals at Violet Gate 162 - 3 on imprisonment
265 on lesbian culture 317 on loss of Greenham 319 on pleasures of common
life 110 on police 248 on Silos Action 209 - 10 on Silos Trial 256 , 263 on soldiers
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... cutting action 211 - 12 on heterosexuals at Violet Gate 162 - 3 on imprisonment
265 on lesbian culture 317 on loss of Greenham 319 on pleasures of common
life 110 on police 248 on Silos Action 209 - 10 on Silos Trial 256 , 263 on soldiers
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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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