Common Women, Uncommon Practices: The Queer Feminisms of GreenhamThis is the story of a group of women of various ages, backgrounds, nationalities, and sexual orientations who met at the US Airforce base at Greenham Common. Based on in-depth interviews and her own personal experience, Sasha Roseneil reveals how their challenges to traditional values, politics, and lifestyles signaled a bold step forward for queer feminist politics. The voices of the women are strong, lively, engaging, and often very funny. The remembrances of their exciting, life-changing times at Greenham captures a moment in history when ordinary women did some extraordinary things. |
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Page 105
Some of them were young , they thought it was a picnic , in a way . And it wasn ' t .
It wasn ' t a picnic , by any means . We did tidy up , and we had to do that
because we didn ' t want visitors coming and seeing all the mess , you see .
Some of them were young , they thought it was a picnic , in a way . And it wasn ' t .
It wasn ' t a picnic , by any means . We did tidy up , and we had to do that
because we didn ' t want visitors coming and seeing all the mess , you see .
Page 161
At Blue there was conflict because the middle - class women that were there
thought that drinking was bad and that being loud and raucous was bad , but they
said , oh you just put everything down to class . But they shoved their class down
...
At Blue there was conflict because the middle - class women that were there
thought that drinking was bad and that being loud and raucous was bad , but they
said , oh you just put everything down to class . But they shoved their class down
...
Page 212
Because I thought it was just as important to get away and tell people what was
going on up there . And he grabbed me and twisted my arm behind me and
started walking me back , and pushing behind , and I was going ' ahh ' , and there
was ...
Because I thought it was just as important to get away and tell people what was
going on up there . And he grabbed me and twisted my arm behind me and
started walking me back , and pushing behind , and I was going ' ahh ' , and there
was ...
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Contents
Genealogies of Greenham | 13 |
Beginnings | 38 |
Geographies of Greenham | 68 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Common Women, Uncommon Practices: The Queer Feminisms of Greenham Lesbian and gay studies |
| Author | Sasha Roseneil |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Cassell, 2000 |
| ISBN | 0304335541, 9780304335541 |
| Length | 340 pages |
| Subjects | › Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory |
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