Making a Scene: Lesbians and Community Across Canada, 1964-84 - Couverture rigide

Millward, Liz

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0774830662 ISBN 13 : 9780774830669

Editeur : University of British Columbia Press, 2015

Synopsis

Starting in the mid-1960s, Canadian lesbians started leaving their closets en masse to find each other and build community. After decades of being pathologized or erased from public view, lesbians were ready to make a scene – both by bringing attention to themselves and by creating physical spaces and opportunities where they could meet to form relationships, debate politics, and forge their own culture.

Making a Scene documents the lesbian movement that emerged in Canada between 1964 and 1984. Not just a story of big-city life, it chronicles the range of spaces lesbians created across rural and urban Canada, from physical locations, such as lesbian and gay centres, bookstores, and private members' clubs, to ephemeral sites of encounter, such as conferences, festivals, and Dykes in the Streets marches.

Enriched by interviews and excerpts from letters, club meeting minutes, diaries, and more, Making a Scene brings to life the exuberance and determination of these young women.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Liz Millward is an associate professor of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Manitoba. Her work on lesbian place-making has been published in Gender, Place and Culture, Feminist Media Studies, Women's History Review, and Australian Feminist Studies. Her book Women in British Imperial Airspace, 1922-1937 won the Canadian Women's Studies Association Annual Book Prize in 2010.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of British Columbia Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0774830662
• ISBN 13: 9780774830669
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 328
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible