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 243
... Carol Harwood Women at Violet Gate in particular , after the period of sustained verbal harassment described by Katrina Allen , developed cordial and even friendly relations with certain groups of soldiers . At Violet Gate , because the ...
... Carol Harwood Women at Violet Gate in particular , after the period of sustained verbal harassment described by Katrina Allen , developed cordial and even friendly relations with certain groups of soldiers . At Violet Gate , because the ...
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... Carol Harwood's words , ' like terrorists ' . There was that whole business of being shoved in the riot vans when we were taken to Holloway after the [ Silos ] trial . The meat wagons with the tiny little cages . One might complain that ...
... Carol Harwood's words , ' like terrorists ' . There was that whole business of being shoved in the riot vans when we were taken to Holloway after the [ Silos ] trial . The meat wagons with the tiny little cages . One might complain that ...
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... Carol Harwood emphasized the range of impacts of Greenham , at both the global and the personal levels : There's the one's that everybody knows about - like Cruise missiles are being sent back , and I don't think that would ever have ...
... Carol Harwood emphasized the range of impacts of Greenham , at both the global and the personal levels : There's the one's that everybody knows about - like Cruise missiles are being sent back , and I don't think that would ever have ...
Contents
Common Women Uncommon Practices | 1 |
Genealogies of Greenham | 13 |
Beginnings | 38 |
Copyright | |
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Common Women, Uncommon Practices: The Queer Feminisms of Greenham Sasha Roseneil No preview available - 2000 |
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