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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... experience of being a part of Greenham which began when I was 16 with my first visit in December 1982 and included the ten months I lived at the camp in late 1983 and 1984 . During this time I had the whole range of ' Greenham experiences ...
... experience of being a part of Greenham which began when I was 16 with my first visit in December 1982 and included the ten months I lived at the camp in late 1983 and 1984 . During this time I had the whole range of ' Greenham experiences ...
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... experience and how to work the system . Women learnt that they should take six books with them to court when they expected to be sent down because six was the maximum number allowed to a prisoner ; they learnt not to take any spare ...
... experience and how to work the system . Women learnt that they should take six books with them to court when they expected to be sent down because six was the maximum number allowed to a prisoner ; they learnt not to take any spare ...
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... experience was not only positive because of what they had learnt about how society operates but also because of the self - knowledge they gained . Prison challenged them to face fears about stepping outside the boundaries of socially ...
... experience was not only positive because of what they had learnt about how society operates but also because of the self - knowledge they gained . Prison challenged them to face fears about stepping outside the boundaries of socially ...
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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