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 128
... violence - the fact that men are far more likely than women to use interpersonal violence and that women suffer huge amounts of violence at the hands of men . Contrary to critical commentary about Greenham there was a firm belief that ...
... violence - the fact that men are far more likely than women to use interpersonal violence and that women suffer huge amounts of violence at the hands of men . Contrary to critical commentary about Greenham there was a firm belief that ...
Page 129
... violence . And I think violence is a bad thing , that violence fucks people up . I think that the option of violence really makes people not think about what the options are , and that violence makes people think in terms of winning and ...
... violence . And I think violence is a bad thing , that violence fucks people up . I think that the option of violence really makes people not think about what the options are , and that violence makes people think in terms of winning and ...
Page 146
... violent nature of the protest because men were more likely to have recourse to violence . The violence and aggression of some of the men who had been living at Greenham quickly became part of the oral history of the camp , passed on in ...
... violent nature of the protest because men were more likely to have recourse to violence . The violence and aggression of some of the men who had been living at Greenham quickly became part of the oral history of the camp , passed on in ...
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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