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 66
The ' visitor ' category includes women who visited the camp between four and a
hundred times . The level of ... so the number of visitors interviewed does not
reflect the number of women in the sample who had experienced being a visitor .
The ' visitor ' category includes women who visited the camp between four and a
hundred times . The level of ... so the number of visitors interviewed does not
reflect the number of women in the sample who had experienced being a visitor .
Page 73
In the wake of these two actions and all the related reportage , large numbers of
visitors and a constant influx of journalists made life at Main Gate hectic and often
tense for the women living there . The number of campers was steadily ...
In the wake of these two actions and all the related reportage , large numbers of
visitors and a constant influx of journalists made life at Main Gate hectic and often
tense for the women living there . The number of campers was steadily ...
Page 98
Greenham visitors commonly brought food , particularly at Christmas when there
was sometimes so much food at the camp that it was passed on to local women '
s aid refuges . From mid - 1984 onwards , as evictions became a regular feature ...
Greenham visitors commonly brought food , particularly at Christmas when there
was sometimes so much food at the camp that it was passed on to local women '
s aid refuges . From mid - 1984 onwards , as evictions became a regular feature ...
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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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