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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Few historians of feminism and analysts of women's politics have devoted much
attention to Greenham , which is surprising given that the women's peace
movement was the largest mobilization of women in Britain since the suffrage ...
Few historians of feminism and analysts of women's politics have devoted much
attention to Greenham , which is surprising given that the women's peace
movement was the largest mobilization of women in Britain since the suffrage ...
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Wiltsher ( 1985 : 168 ) . 24. The Women's Peace Crusade appears to have
slumped after an initial euphoric mobilization , but it was boosted by the Russian
Revolution ( Liddington , 1989 : 122 ) . 25. Eglin ( 1987 ) and Liddington ( 1983 ,
1989 ) ...
Wiltsher ( 1985 : 168 ) . 24. The Women's Peace Crusade appears to have
slumped after an initial euphoric mobilization , but it was boosted by the Russian
Revolution ( Liddington , 1989 : 122 ) . 25. Eglin ( 1987 ) and Liddington ( 1983 ,
1989 ) ...
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The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament ( CND ) , which had been chugging
along at a very low - key level since the Partial Test Ban Treaty in 1963 , was
suddenly infused with new life and began its own ' Protest and Survive '
mobilization .
The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament ( CND ) , which had been chugging
along at a very low - key level since the Partial Test Ban Treaty in 1963 , was
suddenly infused with new life and began its own ' Protest and Survive '
mobilization .
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Contents
at Greenham | 140 |
Queering Lives | 277 |
A Queer New World? | 310 |
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 Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Oct 2010 |
| ISBN | 0304335541, 9780304335541 |
| Length | 340 pages |
| Subjects | › Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory |
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