Feminist periodicals and the production of cultural value: The canadian context

Godard, Barbara

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“…Between 1977 and 1990, the liberal and radical feminist movements peaked and waned, at least in the media's opinion, defeated by neo-conservative governments, policymakers, and media, and postmodern identity debates (Freeman, 2001a;Godard, 2002;Marshall, 1995). Chatelaine underwent a sea change of its own, losing Doris Anderson to the political arena in 1977 (Anderson, 1996).…”

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“…They saw legal human rights legislation as important, but not a cure for the discrimination against lesbians in Canadian society, which many saw as systemically patriarchal (Ross, 1995;Smith, 1999). Their energy was focused on building strong lesbian organizations or a solid social support system for all women; providing rape crisis and battered women's shelters; and creating feminist newspapers, magazines, and films to publicize their causes (Adamson, 1995;Godard, 2002;Marshall, 1995;Masters, 1993). In retrospect, it may be difficult to ascertain how much lesbians dominated these feminist efforts, but there is some evidence to suggest that they formed what journalist and activist Susan G. Cole has called the "invisible backbone" of the Canadian feminist movement of that era (Cole cited in Rebick, 2005, p. 118;Freeman, 2005).…”

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“…Reciprocal rejection between mainstream journalists and feminist radicals was not unusual at the time (Barker-Plummer, 1995;Valk, 2002). Many Canadian and American activists felt that the news media marginalized and demonized feminists and lesbians and so developed their own publications, as a counter-public and alternative voice (Godard, 2002;Marshall, 1995;Masters, 1993;Streitmatter, 1995). But Sangster, in allowing her investigation to be thwarted by one potential source, severed the link between lesbianism and feminism in this article while constructing a simplistic conflict between political and apolitical lesbians that obliterated the complex differences among them (Ross, 1995).…”

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From No Go to No Logo: Lesbian Lives and Rights inChatelaine

Freeman

2006

Canadian Journal of Communication

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This study is a feminist cultural and critical analysis of articles about lesbians and their rights that appeared in Chatelaine magazine between 1966 and 2004. It explores the historical progression of their media representation, from an era when lesbians were pitied and barely tolerated, through a period when their struggles for their legal rights became paramount, to the turn of the present century when they were displaced by post-modern fashion statements about the "fluidity" of sexual orientation, and stripped of their identity politics. These shifts in media representation have had as much to do with marketing the magazine as with its liberal editors' attempts to deal with lesbian lives and rights in ways that would appeal to readers. At the heart of this overview is a challenge to both the media and academia to reclaim lesbians in all their diversity in their real historical and contemporary contexts.Résumé : Cette étude propose une analyse critique et culturelle féministe d'articles publiés dans le magazine Châtelaine entre 1966 et 2004, qui traitent des droits des lesbiennes. Elle explore l'évolution historique de leur représentation dans les médias, de l'époque où les lesbiennes étaient tout juste tolérées, à une période où leur lutte pour leurs droits légaux devint prépondérante, jusqu'au tournant de ce siècle où elles ont été dépouillées de leur politique identitaire et « déplacées » par des éditoriaux postmodernes de la mode sur la « fluidité » de leur orientation sexuelle. Ces déplacements dans la représentation médiatique avaient autant à voir avec la promotion du magazine qu'avec lès tentatives des rédacteurs en chefs de traiter la vie et les droits des lesbiennes de manière à séduire les lecteurs. Au coeur de cette vue d'ensemble, le défi tant pour les médias que pour le monde universitaire est de redéfinir les lesbiennes dans toute la diversité de leurs contextes historique et contemporain réels.

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From No Go to No Logo: Lesbian Lives and Rights inChatelaine

Freeman

2006

Canadian Journal of Communication

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“…On analysait, argumentait et débattait dans la mesure aussi où l'on se reconnaissait comme faisant partie d'un même mouvement ou d'un même ensemble de mouvements engagés dans une lutte de transformation sociale. Contrairement à la presse d'opinion, la presse alternative et militante ne se donnait pas pour mandat de façonner l'opinion publique, mais de proposer des débats politiques et de les orienter (Godard, 2002).…”

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La reconnaissance des apports théoriques du féminisme dans la presse alternative de gauche

Michaud

2011

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Société québécoise de science politique ISSN 1203-9438 (imprimé) 1703-8480 (numérique) Découvrir la revue Citer cet article Michaud, J. (2010). La reconnaissance des apports théoriques du féminisme dans la presse alternative de gauche : Le cas du Temps fou. Politique et Sociétés, 29(2) (1978)(1979)(1980)(1981)(1982)(1983)) a été choisie pour réaliser cette analyse, en raison de la place que celle-ci a occupée au sein de la presse alternative au Québec durant cette période. Cette revue avait fait du féminisme un enjeu important dans le renouvellement du discours de la gauche au Québec. Deux articles du TF sont particulièrement étudiés. Le premier texte souligne les difficultés qu'éprouve la gauche à saisir la portée réelle des transformations proposées par le mouvement des femmes, alors que le deuxième met l'accent sur le contexte d'intégration des apports théoriques féministes au centre du projet discursif d'un mouvement social.This article proposes a critical review of the ways in which some trends within the left interpreted and integrated theoretical issues brought by the women's movement after a decade of feminist political struggle at the end of the seventies and the beginning of the eighties. The study concerns the pluralist left which was the most susceptible to understand and to accept positively feminist demands within an enlarged political platform. The alternative journal Temps fou (TF) (1978)(1979)(1980)(1981)(1982)(1983) was chosen for the place it occupied within the alternative and progressive press in Québec during that period. This journal considered that feminism represented an important challenge for the renewal of the left's political discourse in Québec. Two articles are analysed. The first one exemplifies the difficulty for the left to understand the real meaning of social transformations requested by the women's movement. On the contrary, the second article underlines the context within which a social movement integrates feminist theoretical issues within its core discourse.

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“…Many of the 40-50 feminist periodicals in 1980s-1990s Canada included some lesbian content (Freeman, 2011;Godard, 2002;Marshall, 1995;Masters, 1991), but the exclusively lesbian ones tended to be short-lived and are more difficult to track. This study is the first published history of a known, specifically lesbian, English-Canadian periodical that lasted long enough to allow detailed analysis of its editorial progression.…”

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‘‘A Public sense of ourselves’’: communication and community-building in Canada’s LesbiaNews/LNews, 1989–98

Freeman¹

2011

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LesbiaNews, later known as LNews, was an alternative media monthly, written and produced in Victoria, British Columbia by a dedicated group of women who devoted themselves to raising the public profile of the lesbian community through its pages. It was an outstanding example of a counter-public sphere publication, produced by and for a female minority group. Using critical feminist analysis of its contents and oral history interviews with its key editors, this article explores how LesbiaNews/LNews' shifting editorial mandate reflected the conflicts among its contributors and readers over lesbian feminism and sexual identity politics. The editors, who all held their own strong beliefs, found that promoting both solidarity and diversity was difficult in a lesbian community that was increasingly apolitical, fragmented and elusive, and losing its few social supports.

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Feminist periodicals and the production of cultural value: The canadian context

Cited by 19 publications

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From No Go to No Logo: Lesbian Lives and Rights inChatelaine

From No Go to No Logo: Lesbian Lives and Rights inChatelaine

La reconnaissance des apports théoriques du féminisme dans la presse alternative de gauche

‘‘A Public sense of ourselves’’: communication and community-building in Canada’s LesbiaNews/LNews, 1989–98

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