Common Women, Uncommon Practices: The Queer Feminisms of GreenhamThis is a book about how individual, social, political and cultural change is created through the actions of ordinary women. It is about a unique community of women where conventions were overturned and lives transformed, and it is about a social movement in which tens of thousands of women confronted the police and military to resist the momentum towards nuclear war. The women's peace camp at Greenham Common represented a new direction for feminism in Britain, a queer post-modern feminism which broke with tradition and destabilized certainties. This book weaves together stories of life at Greeham with analysis of its politics. The voices of Greenham women describe living outdoors, in all weathers, in a diverse and ever-changing community of strong-minded women - the pleasures and the problems. Tales of actions and arrest, court and prison are told, and the changes wrought by these experiences are explored. Women speak of the transformations in their lives which took place at Greenham, of sex and sexuality, relationships, friendship and love. |
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Page 62
... moved that people had come from all over the place and really cared , and like we were at the beginning of this big exciting thing and this was going to be a really powerful experience and not just for us . I felt like this is really ...
... moved that people had come from all over the place and really cared , and like we were at the beginning of this big exciting thing and this was going to be a really powerful experience and not just for us . I felt like this is really ...
Page 197
... moved by it , the symbolism of the power of individual women gathered together . Whatever was in there [ the base ] , it could be stopped . And I couldn't just go home then . I wanted to stay and do a bit more . Sian Edwards Simone ...
... moved by it , the symbolism of the power of individual women gathered together . Whatever was in there [ the base ] , it could be stopped . And I couldn't just go home then . I wanted to stay and do a bit more . Sian Edwards Simone ...
Page 230
... moved onto a piece of land owned by the Ministry of Transport right next to the common land from which they had been evicted . The publicity following the first imprisonments served only to draw more women and more support to the camp ...
... moved onto a piece of land owned by the Ministry of Transport right next to the common land from which they had been evicted . The publicity following the first imprisonments served only to draw more women and more support to the camp ...
Contents
Action Stories | 186 |
Queerying Authority | 227 |
Queering Lives | 277 |
Copyright | |
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Common Women, Uncommon Practices: The Queer Feminisms of Greenham Sasha Roseneil No preview available - 2000 |
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