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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... court sometimes in a large trial with a lot of women was a competitive process about who could be more moving than anybody else ! You know , who could make a policeman cry ? Who could really have the most impact and be the most stunning ...
... court sometimes in a large trial with a lot of women was a competitive process about who could be more moving than anybody else ! You know , who could make a policeman cry ? Who could really have the most impact and be the most stunning ...
Page 259
... court and their refusal of its authority over them . Over time trials became routinized . The court officials largely gave up trying to make women stand up or shut up , magistrates appeared to have decided verdicts before cases were ...
... court and their refusal of its authority over them . Over time trials became routinized . The court officials largely gave up trying to make women stand up or shut up , magistrates appeared to have decided verdicts before cases were ...
Page 260
... court . Initially I thought that the courts would actually listen to what was going on . I had this naïve belief that justice would prevail . And with the silos trial , and some of the evidence that came up at that was so glaringly ...
... court . Initially I thought that the courts would actually listen to what was going on . I had this naïve belief that justice would prevail . And with the silos trial , and some of the evidence that came up at that was so glaringly ...
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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