Are we 'persons' yet? Lahey, Kathleen A
Are we 'persons' yet?,
c1999, 19990805, 2000, 1999, 1999-01-01
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In 1929 women were declared ?persons? under the British North America Act. Seventy years later a similar move is afoot to establish constitutional personhood for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, ...and transgendered people.
With the turn of the century came increased industrialization and urbanization, and in Toronto one of the most visible results of this modernization was the influx of young, single women to the city. ...They came seeking work, independence, and excitement, but they were not to realize these goals without contention.
Carolyn Strange examines the rise of the Toronto 'working girl,' the various agencies that 'discovered' her, the nature of 'the girl problem' from the point of view of moral overseers, the various strategies devised to solve this 'problem,' and lastly, the young women's responses to moral regulation. The 'working girl' seemed a problem to reformers, evangelists, social investigators, police, the courts, and journalists - men, mostly, who saw women's debasement as certain and appointed themselves as protectors of morality. They portrayed single women as victims of potential economic and sexual exploitation and urban immorality. Such characterization drew attention away from the greater problems these women faced: poverty, unemployment, poor housing and nutrition, and low wages.
In the course of her investigation, Strange suggests fresh approaches to working-class and urban history. Her sources include the census, court papers, newspaper accounts, philanthropic society reports, and royal commissions, but Strange also employs less conventional sources, such as photographs and popular songs. She approaches the topic from a feminist viewpoint that is equally sensitive to the class and racial dimensions of the 'girl problem,' and compares her findings with the emergence of the working woman in contemporary United States and Great Britain.
The overriding observation is that Torontonians projected their fears and hopes about urban industrialization onto the figure of the working girl. Young women were regulated from factories and offices, to streetcars and dancehalls, in an effort to control the deleterious effects of industrial capitalism. By the First World War however, their value as contributors to the expanding economy began to outweigh fear of their moral endangerment. As Torontonians grew accustomed to life in the industrial metropolis, the 'working girl' came to be seen as a valuable resource.
Never going back Warner, Tom
Never going back,
2002, 20020625, 2000, 2002-06-25
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Drawing on interviews with leading gay and lesbian activists across Canada, Warner chronicles and analyzes a tumultuous grassroots struggle for sexual liberation, legislated equality, and fundamental ...social change.
Love Between Women examines female homoeroticism and the role of women in the ancient Roman world. Employing an unparalleled range of cultural sources, Brooten finds evidence of marriages between ...women and establishes that condemnations of female homoerotic practices were based on widespread awareness of love between women.
Without Working? Maynard, Steven
Journal of urban history,
03/2004, Letnik:
30, Številka:
3
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Within the gay/lesbian historiography, there has been a long-running debate over the relative roles played by capitalism and urban culture in the historical formation of gay and lesbian identities ...and communities. The author argues that in recent years historians have come to favor the urban, both as a framework for inquiry and as an explanatory device. In view of this historiographical tilt toward the urban, the author goes on to suggest some ways to bring capitalism and the economic back into view.
"Where are the lesbians?". Based on the remark that lesbian women are often too invisible
both in the history and in the public spaces, this paper explore their presence through history
and space. An ...Ltour
is an experience through the city of Brussels, Belgium, that allows the
participants to discover this European capital under different eyes. This article invites the
readers to virtually walk with the authors through the 1970s until today, exploring official and
unofficial stories that made and make lesbians existing and being present as historical and
political subjects.
"¿Dónde están las lesbianas?" Basado en la observación de que las mujeres lesbianas son a
menudo invisibles tanto de la história y del espacio público, este artículo explora su presencia
a través de la historia y el espacio. Un Ltour
es una experiencia por la ciudad de Bruselas,
Bélgica, que permite a los participantes descubrir esa capital de Europa bajo diferentes
miradas. Este artículo invita a las lectoras a caminar virtualmente con las autoras desde la
década de 1970 a la actualidad, explorando historias oficiales y no oficiales, que hicieron y
hacen que las lesbianas existan y se hagan presentes como sujetos históricos y políticos.
PalabrasClave:
Historia Lesbiana; Bruselas; 'herstory'; Visibilidad Lesbiana; Lesbofobia;
Archivos Feministas.
This chapter shows how Latin American lesbian feminist internet practices reflect their own circumstances and values. These have led them to focus their internet-based counterpublic work on privacy ...and visibility. They need a place for their private life, where they can find each other and build community away from the threat of violence and rejection that still, despite significant changes in their legal status, characterizes their daily existence. Yet they also need support for visibilidad lesbica, lesbian visibility, to confront exclusion, bringing the fact of their existence and their demands for the worlds in which they want to live to larger publics. In doing so, they have also reinterpreted internet applications towards their own ends, such as through the innovative project of a blog-based archive of lesbian history.
An Astounding Masquerade Glamuzina, Julie
Journal of lesbian studies,
01/2001, Letnik:
5, Številka:
1-2
Journal Article
Recenzirano
This paper considers the contribution of historical accounts and case studies to the development of lesbian historical knowledge and the amplification of lesbian experience. The author suggests that ...historical endeavours need to position such accounts and assert lesbian experience so that,Increasingly, public space is occupied by lesbian knowledge and lesbian concerns. The paper discusses a 1945 case of a New Zealand woman, known only as Mr. X, who dressed and acted as a man for over ten years, even having her breasts removed. She was criminally charged when legal authorities discovered she had fraudulently married another woman. The pattern of regulatory responses by the dominant hetero-culture is discussed in relation to this case and other similar cases and categorised into three strategies-einforcement, containment, and leverage.
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