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Queerly Canadian
An Introductory Reader in Sexuality Studies
Edited by Maureen FitzGerald, Scott Rayter
September 2012
Print ISBN: 9781551304007
Overview
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
Table of Contents
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 McCaskell
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
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