Queerly Canadian : an introductory reader in sexuality studies / edited by Maureen FitzGerald and Scott Rayter.

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"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."...

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Other Authors: FitzGerald, Maureen, 1942-
Rayter, Scott, 1970-
Language:English
Published: Toronto : Canadian Scholars' Press, 2012.
©2012
Subjects:
Gay people > Canada > Social conditions.
Homosexuality > Canada.
Gay rights > Canada.
Homosexuels > Canada > Conditions sociales.
Homosexualité > Canada.
Homosexuels > Droits > Canada.
Gay rights.
Gays > Social conditions.
Homosexuality.
Canada.
Physical Description:xxvi, 585 pages ; 25 cm
Issued also in electronic formats.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • PART ONE: THINKING QUEERLY ABOUT IDENTITY, COMMUNITY, AND NATION
  • 1. On the Myth 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 and 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 McCaskell
  • 13. Emergence of a Poz Sexual Culture: Accounting for "Barebacking" among Gay Men / Barry D. 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 Responses to Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Workers / Gerald Hunt and Jonathan Eaton
  • 16. Reframing Prostitution as Work / Deborah Brock
  • 17. Working the club / 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 L. 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: Looking Backward, Looking Forward / Rachel Epstein
  • PART EIGHT: SPORT
  • 25. Sex and Sport / Brian Pronger
  • 26. Transsexual Bodies at the Olympics: The International Olympic Committee's Policy on Transsexual Athletes at the 2004 Athens Summer Games / Sheila L. 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 A. 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.