Queerly Canadian
An Introductory Reader in Sexuality Studies
Published on 30. September 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
616 pages
978-1-55130-400-7 (ISBN)
Description
In this remarkable and comprehensive anthology, many of Canada's leading sexuality studies scholars examine the fundamental role that sexuality has played - and continues to play - in the building of our nation, and in our national narratives, myths, and anxieties about Canadian identity.
Covering both historical and contemporary perspectives on law and criminal justice, organizing and resistance, health and medicine, labour, education, marriage and family, sport, popular and youth culture, and visual media, these essays also integrate marginalities such as race, class, and gender. This massive interdisciplinary collection is essential for the Canadian sexuality studies classroom, and for anyone interested in the mythologies and realities of queer life in Canada.Features: - explores the role of the state in regulating sexuality and constructing citizenship as well activist strategies of resistance
- offers a unique Canadian perspective on queer history and politics, discussing topics such as RCMP surveillance, abuse in residential schools, and the "problem" of Canadian identity
- adopts an interdisciplinary approach, with contributors from the fields of gender and sexuality studies, sociology, history, criminology, political science, cultural studies, health studies, and education, as well as chapters by professionals, artists, and activists
Covering both historical and contemporary perspectives on law and criminal justice, organizing and resistance, health and medicine, labour, education, marriage and family, sport, popular and youth culture, and visual media, these essays also integrate marginalities such as race, class, and gender. This massive interdisciplinary collection is essential for the Canadian sexuality studies classroom, and for anyone interested in the mythologies and realities of queer life in Canada.Features: - explores the role of the state in regulating sexuality and constructing citizenship as well activist strategies of resistance
- offers a unique Canadian perspective on queer history and politics, discussing topics such as RCMP surveillance, abuse in residential schools, and the "problem" of Canadian identity
- adopts an interdisciplinary approach, with contributors from the fields of gender and sexuality studies, sociology, history, criminology, political science, cultural studies, health studies, and education, as well as chapters by professionals, artists, and activists
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Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto
Canada
Dimensions
Height: 248 mm
Width: 171 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-55130-400-7 (9781551304007)
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Persons
Maureen Fitzgerald is former director of the Sexual Diversity Studies Undergraduate Program at University of Toronto. A former editor at Women's Press, she has also taught for 30 years in the Transitional Year Program at the University of Toronto.
Scott Rayter is the Associate Director of the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies at the University of Toronto, where he also teaches in the Department of English.
Scott Rayter is the Associate Director of the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies at the University of Toronto, where he also teaches in the Department of English.
Content
- Alternative Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One: Thinking Queerly About Identity, Community, And Nation
- 1. On the Myths of Sexual Orientation: Field Notes from the Personal, Pedagogical, and Historical Discourses of Identity, Margot Francis
- 2. Outside in Black Studies: Reading from a Queer Place in the Diaspora, Rinaldo Walcott
- 3. Our Bodies Are Not Ourselves: Tranny Guys and the Racialized Class Politics of Incoherence, Jean Bobby Noble
- Part Two: The State, The Law, And The Criminal Justice System
- 4. The Regulation of First Nations Sexuality, Martin Cannon
- 5. The Canadian Cold War on Queers: Sexual Regulation and Resistance,Gary Kinsman
- 6. Unknowable Bodies, Unthinkable Sexualities: Lesbian and Transgender Legal Invisibility in the Toronto Women's Bathhouse Raid, Sara Lamble
- 7. Faith, Politics, and the Transformation of Canada, Tom Warner
- Part Three: Organizing And Resistance
- 8. Identity and Opportunity: The Lesbian and Gay Rights Movement, Miriam Smith
- 9. Like Apples & Oranges: Lesbian Feminist Responses to the Politics of The Body Politic, Becki Ross
- Part Four: Health, Medicine, And The Experts
- 10. On the Case of the Case: The Emergence of the Homosexual as a Case History in Early-Twentieth-Century Ontario, Steven Maynard
- 11. The Criminal Sexual Psychopath: Sex, Psychiatry, and the Law at Mid-Century, Elise Chenier
- 12. Continental Drift: The Imaging of AIDS, Richard Fung and Tim McCaskel
- 13. Emergence of a Poz Sexual Culture: Accounting for ""Barebacking"" among Gay Men, Barry Adam
- Part Five: Work
- 14. From Modern Babylon to a City upon a Hill: The Toronto Social Survey Commission of 1915 and the Search for Sexual Order in the City, Carolyn Strange
- 15. We Are Family: Labour Responds to Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Workers, Gerald Hunt and Jonathan Eaton
- 16. Reframing Prostitution as Work, Deborah Brock
- 17. Taking It Off, Putting It On: Women in the Strip Trade, Chris Bruckert
- Part Six: Education
- 18. Gay and Out in Secondary School: One Youth's Story, John Guiney Yallop
- 19. Canadian School Lethargy, David Rayside
- 20. Sexing the Teacher: Voyeuristic Pleasure in the Amy Gehring Sex Panic, Sheila Cavanagh
- Part Seven: Marriage, Parenting, And The Family
- 21. ""That Repulsive Abnormal Creature I Heard Of in That Book"": Lesbians and Families in Ontario, 1920-1965, Karen Duder
- 22. Heterosexuality Goes Public: The Postwar Honeymoon, Karen Dubinsky
- 23. A New Entity in the History of Sexuality: The Respectable Same Sex Couple, Mariana Valverde
- 24. Queer Parenting in Canada in the 21st Century: Issues, Debates, and Controversies, Rachel Epstein
- Part Eight: Sport
- 25. Sport and the Homoerotic Paradox, Brian Pronger
- 26. Transsexual Bodies at the Olympics: The International Olympic Committee's Policy on Transsexual Athletes at the 2004 Athens Summer Games, Sheila Cavanagh and Heather Sykes
- 27. Consuming Compassion: AIDS, Figure Skating, and Canadian Identity,Samantha King
- Part Nine: Media, Popular Culture, And Youth Culture
- 28. The ""Blood Libel"" and the Spectator's Eye in Norwich and Toronto, David Townsend
- 29. Queering ""Pervert City"": A Queer Reading of the Swift Current Hockey Scandal, Debra Shogan
- 30. Beyond Image Content: Examining Transsexuals' Access to the Media, Viviane Namaste
- 31. Queer as Citizens, Brenda Cossman
- 32. FOBS, Banana Boy, and the Gay Pretenders: Queer Youth Navigate Sex, ""Race,"" and Nation in Toronto, Canada, Andil Gosine
- Part Ten: Visual Cultures
- 33. The ""Hottentot Venus"" in Canada: Modernism, Censorship, and the Racial Limits of Female Sexuality, Charmaine Nelson
- 34. Porn Wars and Other Hysteries, Kiss & Tell
- 35. Forbidden Love, or Queering the National Film Board of Canada, Thomas Waugh
- 36. The Noble Savage Was a Drag Queen: Hybridity and Transformation in Kent Monkman's Performance and Visual Art Interventions, Kerry Swanson
- About the Authors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One: Thinking Queerly About Identity, Community, And Nation
- 1. On the Myths of Sexual Orientation: Field Notes from the Personal, Pedagogical, and Historical Discourses of Identity, Margot Francis
- 2. Outside in Black Studies: Reading from a Queer Place in the Diaspora, Rinaldo Walcott
- 3. Our Bodies Are Not Ourselves: Tranny Guys and the Racialized Class Politics of Incoherence, Jean Bobby Noble
- Part Two: The State, The Law, And The Criminal Justice System
- 4. The Regulation of First Nations Sexuality, Martin Cannon
- 5. The Canadian Cold War on Queers: Sexual Regulation and Resistance,Gary Kinsman
- 6. Unknowable Bodies, Unthinkable Sexualities: Lesbian and Transgender Legal Invisibility in the Toronto Women's Bathhouse Raid, Sara Lamble
- 7. Faith, Politics, and the Transformation of Canada, Tom Warner
- Part Three: Organizing And Resistance
- 8. Identity and Opportunity: The Lesbian and Gay Rights Movement, Miriam Smith
- 9. Like Apples & Oranges: Lesbian Feminist Responses to the Politics of The Body Politic, Becki Ross
- Part Four: Health, Medicine, And The Experts
- 10. On the Case of the Case: The Emergence of the Homosexual as a Case History in Early-Twentieth-Century Ontario, Steven Maynard
- 11. The Criminal Sexual Psychopath: Sex, Psychiatry, and the Law at Mid-Century, Elise Chenier
- 12. Continental Drift: The Imaging of AIDS, Richard Fung and Tim McCaskel
- 13. Emergence of a Poz Sexual Culture: Accounting for ""Barebacking"" among Gay Men, Barry Adam
- Part Five: Work
- 14. From Modern Babylon to a City upon a Hill: The Toronto Social Survey Commission of 1915 and the Search for Sexual Order in the City, Carolyn Strange
- 15. We Are Family: Labour Responds to Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Workers, Gerald Hunt and Jonathan Eaton
- 16. Reframing Prostitution as Work, Deborah Brock
- 17. Taking It Off, Putting It On: Women in the Strip Trade, Chris Bruckert
- Part Six: Education
- 18. Gay and Out in Secondary School: One Youth's Story, John Guiney Yallop
- 19. Canadian School Lethargy, David Rayside
- 20. Sexing the Teacher: Voyeuristic Pleasure in the Amy Gehring Sex Panic, Sheila Cavanagh
- Part Seven: Marriage, Parenting, And The Family
- 21. ""That Repulsive Abnormal Creature I Heard Of in That Book"": Lesbians and Families in Ontario, 1920-1965, Karen Duder
- 22. Heterosexuality Goes Public: The Postwar Honeymoon, Karen Dubinsky
- 23. A New Entity in the History of Sexuality: The Respectable Same Sex Couple, Mariana Valverde
- 24. Queer Parenting in Canada in the 21st Century: Issues, Debates, and Controversies, Rachel Epstein
- Part Eight: Sport
- 25. Sport and the Homoerotic Paradox, Brian Pronger
- 26. Transsexual Bodies at the Olympics: The International Olympic Committee's Policy on Transsexual Athletes at the 2004 Athens Summer Games, Sheila Cavanagh and Heather Sykes
- 27. Consuming Compassion: AIDS, Figure Skating, and Canadian Identity,Samantha King
- Part Nine: Media, Popular Culture, And Youth Culture
- 28. The ""Blood Libel"" and the Spectator's Eye in Norwich and Toronto, David Townsend
- 29. Queering ""Pervert City"": A Queer Reading of the Swift Current Hockey Scandal, Debra Shogan
- 30. Beyond Image Content: Examining Transsexuals' Access to the Media, Viviane Namaste
- 31. Queer as Citizens, Brenda Cossman
- 32. FOBS, Banana Boy, and the Gay Pretenders: Queer Youth Navigate Sex, ""Race,"" and Nation in Toronto, Canada, Andil Gosine
- Part Ten: Visual Cultures
- 33. The ""Hottentot Venus"" in Canada: Modernism, Censorship, and the Racial Limits of Female Sexuality, Charmaine Nelson
- 34. Porn Wars and Other Hysteries, Kiss & Tell
- 35. Forbidden Love, or Queering the National Film Board of Canada, Thomas Waugh
- 36. The Noble Savage Was a Drag Queen: Hybridity and Transformation in Kent Monkman's Performance and Visual Art Interventions, Kerry Swanson
- About the Authors