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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Greenham began as a protest against Cruise missiles and over the years tens of
thousands of women made their own ... over fifty thousand women , from the
carefully planned to the completely spontaneous , from the secret to the utterly
overt .
Greenham began as a protest against Cruise missiles and over the years tens of
thousands of women made their own ... over fifty thousand women , from the
carefully planned to the completely spontaneous , from the secret to the utterly
overt .
Page 196
Tens of thousands of women responded to the camp ' s suggestion that they
bring symbols of their hopes and fears to decorate the fence and within hours the
nine - mile perimeter fence was transformed into a giant art installation .
Tens of thousands of women responded to the camp ' s suggestion that they
bring symbols of their hopes and fears to decorate the fence and within hours the
nine - mile perimeter fence was transformed into a giant art installation .
Page 200
Clare Hudson THE DRAGON FESTIVAL Other gatherings tended to be smaller (
thousands rather than tens of thousands ) and to involve primarily those who
were more centrally part of the Greenham network . There was , for instance , the
...
Clare Hudson THE DRAGON FESTIVAL Other gatherings tended to be smaller (
thousands rather than tens of thousands ) and to involve primarily those who
were more centrally part of the Greenham network . There was , for instance , the
...
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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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