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OverviewIn the 1960s, a youthful and ambitious lesbian movement began taking shape in Canada. After decades of being pathologized, disparaged, or erased from public view, lesbians were ready to make a scene – both by calling attention to themselves and by creating places to come together and forge their own culture. Making a Scene tells this story, revisiting the spaces lesbians created across rural and urban Canada, from physical locations, such as bars, bookstores, and members’ clubs, to ephemeral sites, such as conferences, festivals, and protest marches. Enriched with interviews, this volume captures the exuberance and challenges of this transformational period. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Liz MillwardPublisher: University of British Columbia Press Imprint: University of British Columbia Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.612kg ISBN: 9780774830669ISBN 10: 0774830662 Pages: 328 Publication Date: 15 November 2015 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: Creating Places 1 “The Lesbian, Drinking, Is Never at Her Best”: Beer Parlours, Taverns, and Bars 2 “No Drugs, No Straights”: Members-Only Clubs 3 “Let’s Decide What We Are – A Drop-In or a Café with Entertainment”: Buildings Part 2: Overcoming Geography 4 “It Was an Incredible Conference”: Getting Together 5 “An Event That Is Talked About as Far Away as Toronto”: Claiming Public Space 6 “Be Daring – Live the Unbelievable and Challenging Life of a Rural Lesbian!”: Outside the Big City Conclusion Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsThis well-researched study of twenty formative years of lesbian community-building in Canada covers a lot of ground ... Millward has captured the flavor of an era by combining data from previous studies with eyewitness accounts and black-and-white photos from private collections. She proposes a symbiotic relationship between self-defined lesbians and their scene or social milieu: a lesbian identity requires a social context, and vice versa. -- Jean Roberta * The Gay and Lesbian Review * Author InformationLiz 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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