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 66
... visitors ' . A ' camper ' was a woman who , for a period of time greater than two months , made her home at Greenham ... visitors interviewed does not reflect the number of women in the sample who had experienced being a visitor . The ...
... visitors ' . A ' camper ' was a woman who , for a period of time greater than two months , made her home at Greenham ... visitors interviewed does not reflect the number of women in the sample who had experienced being a visitor . The ...
Page 97
... Visitors At that time Greenham was just beginning to get this real blitz of press attention , and there was so much stuff there that had been donated . There were great big dustbins full of bottles . I turned up with a bottle of whisky ...
... Visitors At that time Greenham was just beginning to get this real blitz of press attention , and there was so much stuff there that had been donated . There were great big dustbins full of bottles . I turned up with a bottle of whisky ...
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... visitors - alcohol and chocolate , particularly - eased the pressures of evictions and warmed our spirits in the rain . The downside of the constant through - flow of visitors and supporters was the expectation of attention from women ...
... visitors - alcohol and chocolate , particularly - eased the pressures of evictions and warmed our spirits in the rain . The downside of the constant through - flow of visitors and supporters was the expectation of attention from women ...
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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