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Making a Scene: Lesbians and Community across Canada, 1964-84

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Description for Making a Scene: Lesbians and Community across Canada, 1964-84 Paperback. A celebratory history of how lesbians "made a scene" by creating places and opportunities to form relationships, debate politics, and build their own culture across Canada. Series: Sexuality Studies. Num Pages: 15 photographs, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 3JJP; 5SL; HBTV; JFSJ1; JFSK2; JPW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.

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 ... Read more

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.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Condition
New
Series
Sexuality Studies
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Vancouver, Canada
ISBN
9780774830676
SKU
V9780774830676
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Liz Millward
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.

Reviews for Making a Scene: Lesbians and Community across Canada, 1964-84
This 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 ... Read more

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