The Feminism of Uncertainty: A Gender Diary
Ann Snitow is Associate Professor of Literature and Gender Studies at Lang College, The New School, in New York City. A longtime activist, Snitow has cofounded The Network of East-West Women, No More Nice Girls, and New York Radical Feminists. She has written for The Village Voice, The Nation, The Women’s Review of Books, Dissent, and many other publications, and is coeditor of Powers of Desire: The Politics of Sexuality and The Feminist Memoir Project: Voices from Women's Liberation.
Occupying Greenham Common
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Published:August 2015
This piece about the women’s peace camp encircling a U.S. cruise missile base in England in the 1980s has a new introduction connecting that earlier, effective, long-term demonstration to the work of Occupy Wall Street. Greenham was a political location of extraordinary diversity and invention. It became women-only after the first nine months for a variety of reasons explored here in detail, including contradictory accounts mirroring the variety of feminist movement ideas. The camp became a place of protest for women with very different political aesthetics, strategies, fears, and wishes. At the camp fire, they discussed these differences, the prospects...
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