The House That Jill Built: Lesbian Feminist Organizing in Toronto, 1976-1980

Ross, Becki

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“…Questions relating to sexualities have been placed firmly on the research agenda of cultural and feminist studies (Crimp, 1992;de Lauretis, 1991;D"Emilio, 1992;Douglas, 1990;Grosz, 1989;Ross, 1990) and geography (Bell, 1991;Geltmaker, 1992;Jackson, 1989Jackson, , 1991Knopp, 1987Knopp, , 1990Knopp, , 1992Valentine, 1993aValentine, , 1993b. In the last few years I have read this work with great interest, but have been disappointed that geographers have paid very little attention to lesbians (but see, Adler and Brenner, 1992;Peake, 1993;Valentine, 1993aValentine, , 1993band Winchester and White, 1988).…”

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Getting Personal: Reflexivity, Positionality, and Feminist Research∗

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1994

The Professional Geographer

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Feminist and poststructural challenges to objectivist social science demand greater reflection by the researcher with the aim of producing more inclusive methods sensitive to the power relations in fieldwork. Following a discussion of contrasting approaches to these power relations, I present a reflexive examination of a research project on sexual identities. My reflections highlight some of the key ethical questions that face researchers conducting fieldwork, especially with regard to the relationship between the researcher and those being researched. My discussion of these dilemmas reflect the situated and partial nature of our understanding of “others.” I argue that the researcher's positionality and biography directly affect fieldwork and that fieldwork is a dialogical process which is structured by the researcher and the participants.

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“…By extension, and within the same political frameworks, they wanted lesbian equalitypolitically, economically, and socially as a collective right as well as an individual one-within the predominantly heterosexual feminist movement and Canadian society at large. There were other lesbians who rejected involvement with gay men or heterosexual feminists altogether, preferring to lead a separatist existence as "radicalesbians" (Adamson, 1995;Rebick, 2005;Ross, 1995;Stone, 1990).…”

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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).…”

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“…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). These efforts continued despite the reluctance of the mainstream women's movement to deal with the lesbian issue then (Ross, 1995;Smith, 1999).…”

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“…In real life, pantsuits or jeans had become more acceptable attire for all women since the 1960s (Sangster, 1977), while lesbian feminist trend-setters were anti-style for political reasons. They adopted plaid or denim shirts, jeans and work boots to signal their sympathy with the working class, disdain for culturally enforced femininity, and desire for a recognizable culture of their own (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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Playing the game of lesbian imagination: radical lesbian feminist organising in the Dutch Lesbian Nation

Littel

2021

Women's History Review

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In 1976, a small group of lesbian feminists in Amsterdam named themselves after Jill Johnston's Lesbian Nation: The Feminist Solution (1973) and imagined a separate lesbian society, free from heteropatriarchal oppression. Despite naming themselves after Johnston, Lesbian Nation's main aim was inspired by French feminist theorist Monique Wittig: to subvert the existing symbolic order, and create a new one in its wake. Based on archival research and interviews, this article shows how Lesbian Nation combined both lesbian separatist and cultural feminist tendencies, by experimenting with lesbian identity and creating a women's culture. Discussing the similarities and differences between Lesbian Nation and its predecessor, Paarse September, this article illustrates how lesbian organising evolved in the Netherlands. More broadly, this article adds to lesbian feminist historiography, showing how a small group shaped their own lesbian feminist ideologyand brought this into practiceon a local scale.

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The House That Jill Built: Lesbian Feminist Organizing in Toronto, 1976-1980

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Getting Personal: Reflexivity, Positionality, and Feminist Research∗

Getting Personal: Reflexivity, Positionality, and Feminist Research∗

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

Playing the game of lesbian imagination: radical lesbian feminist organising in the Dutch Lesbian Nation

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