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 141
... significant at Greenham , hinge on the question of the meaning of the designation ' women ' . ' Women ' were named as the actors and owners of the ' Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp ' , the identity invoked in a celebratory ...
... significant at Greenham , hinge on the question of the meaning of the designation ' women ' . ' Women ' were named as the actors and owners of the ' Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp ' , the identity invoked in a celebratory ...
Page 156
... significant of these may be summed up as the ' queering ' of Greenham . By this , I am referring to a shift in the dominant politics of the camp from the maternalism of the walk and the early days to the much stronger feminist politics ...
... significant of these may be summed up as the ' queering ' of Greenham . By this , I am referring to a shift in the dominant politics of the camp from the maternalism of the walk and the early days to the much stronger feminist politics ...
Page 187
... significant in an individual's history of being at the camp , or were particularly politically important to her , or were simply exciting , dramatic or fun . Just as there was an enormous range of actions taken at Greenham , so these ...
... significant in an individual's history of being at the camp , or were particularly politically important to her , or were simply exciting , dramatic or fun . Just as there was an enormous range of actions taken at Greenham , so these ...
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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