| Description |
1 online resource (321 pages) |
| Contents |
Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Queer Nation?; Hosanna! Michel Tremblay's Queering of National Identity; Talking Forbidden Love: An Interview with Lynne Fernie; Buller Men and Batty Bwoys: Hidden Men in Toronto and Halifax Black Communities; "Family" as a Site of Contestation: Queering the Normal or Normalizing the Queer?; Can You See the Difference?: Queerying the Nation, Ethnicity, Festival, and Culture in Winnipeg; The Bisexuality Wars: The Perils of Identity as Marginality; Imagining an Intercultural Nation: A Moment in Canadian Queer Cinema |
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The Elephant, the Mouse, and the Lesbian National Park RangersHaving a Gay Old Time in Paris: John Glassco's Not-50-Queer Adventures; Redesigning Wreck: Beach Meets Forest as Location of Male Homoerotic Culture & Placemaking in Pacific Canada; Challenging Canadian and Queer Nationalisms; Siting Lesbians: Urban Spaces and Sexuality; Wear It with Pride: The Fashions of Toronto's Pride Paradeand Canadian Queer Identities; Fairy Tales of Two Cities: or Queer Nation(s)-National Cinema(s); Index; Notes on Contributors |
| Summary |
In terms of rights and freedoms for queers, Canada holds an international reputation as among the most liberal of nations. Yet this picture of harmonious gay and lesbian assimilation is nothing if not fractured and fraught with the contradictions of place, privilege, race, and gender. In a Queer Country is a groundbreaking collection of fourteen essays on queer culture |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Mouvement de liberation des homosexuels -- Canada
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Canada
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781551523989 |
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1551523981 |
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