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Title: LESBIAN AND BISEXUAL WOMEN'S INTERPRETATIONS OF LESBIAN AND
ERSATZ LESBIAN PORNOGRAPHY.
Authors: Morrison, Todd G.1
Tallack, Dani2
Source: Sexuality & Culture; Spring2005, Vol. 9 Issue 2, p3-30, 28p
Document Type: Article
Subject Terms: *BISEXUAL women
*EROTICA
*LESBIANS
*PORNOGRAPHY
*WOMEN & erotica
Abstract: The purpose of the current study was to examine
non-heterosexual women's interpretations of "lesbian" material contained
in pornography targeting male viewers and pornography made by and for
lesbian women. Four focus groups were conducted (N = 17) in which participants saw two pornographic sequences; one ostensibly for heterosexual males and the other for lesbian women. Participants then engaged in a semi-structured discussion for approximately 90 minutes. Conversations were tape-recorded, transcribed, and analyzed for themes. Stated briefly, results indicated that participants differentiated between the two sequences on a variety of dimensions including performers' bodies, the emphasis on penetration, and the presence or absence of intimacy. The implications of these findings and ideas for subsequent research are outlined. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Author Affiliations: 1National University of Ireland, Department of
Psychology, Galway, Ireland
2Red Deer College, Alberta T4N 5H5, Canada
ISSN: 1095-5143
Accession Number: 16913987
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Record: 2
Title: Contesting Identity: Politics of gays and lesbians in Toronto in
the 1970s.
Authors: Nash, Catherine Jean1
Source: Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography;
Mar2005, Vol. 12 Issue 1, p113-135, 23p
Document Type: Article
Subject Terms: *GAYS
*IDENTITY (Psychology)
*LESBIANS
*MINORITIES
*POLITICAL activists
Geographic Terms: ONTARIO
TORONTO (Ont.)
Abstract: This article explores a particular moment in the history
of Toronto's gay movement politics when the movements' ideological
perspectives on the nature of gay and lesbian identities and associated spaces shifted dramatically from the so-called liberationist stance of the mid-1970s to the so-called ethnic minority approach of the late 1970s. This occurred within the context of a particular series of events that prompted gay activists to rework their conceptualization of gay and lesbian identity in order to be recognized as legitimate participants in certain pivotal, public proceedings. Far from being a well-thought-out and deliberate shift in political strategy, the ‘minority’ argument was, in many ways, a reflexive and unexamined response to unanticipated circumstances. Toronto's gay activists, in representing gays and lesbians as a minority fundamentally altered meanings associated with both gay and lesbian identities and with the spaces dominated or controlled by gay and lesbian interests. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Author Affiliations: 1Department of Geography, Brock University, St.
Catharine's, ON, Canada.
ISSN: 0966-369X
DOI: 10.1080/09663690500083115
Accession Number: 16999780
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Title: Transgendered Persons and Feminist Strategy.
Authors: Mathen, Carissima
Source: Canadian Journal of Women & the Law; 2004, Vol. 16 Issue 2,
p291-316, 26p
Document Type: Article
Subject Terms: *COUNSELING
*FEMINISM
*TRANSGENDER people -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Geographic Terms: VANCOUVER (B.C.)
People: NIXON, Kimberly
Abstract (English): The feminist movement has struggled over how to integrate transgendered persons into feminist activism, legal analysis, and politics. The issue has recently crystallized in the case of Kimberly Nixon, a male-to-female transgendered person who was refused a counseling position at the Vancouver Rape Relief and Women's Shelter. This article explores the various dimensions of the conflict, locating the Nixon case within a discussion of transgendered human rights claims and Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms equality analysis. The article challenges the strategic and legal choices made by each party. It links the difficult questions in Nixon to the limitations of rights discourse as a (feminist) (equality rights) tool. The article concludes that the best way to deal with this particular conflict is through
sustained dialogue rather than further litigation. [ABSTRACT FROM
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Title: Not My Sister: What Feminists Can Learn about Sisterhood from
Indigenous Women.
Authors: Lindberg, Tracey
Source: Canadian Journal of Women & the Law; 2004, Vol. 16 Issue 2,
p342-352, 11p
Document Type: Article
Subject Terms: *FEMINISM
*FEMINISTS
*LINGUISTICS
*INDIGENOUS women
*TRADITIONAL knowledge
Abstract (English): In the context of indigenous knowledge, the
political language of sisterhood and the cultural linguistics of
relations intersect, resulting in definitions of roles, responsibilities, and obligations of indigenous relations that are complex and gendered. The laws pertaining to indigenous relationships, while sharing some terminology with feminism, do not always share definition, understanding, or context. For these reasons, identifying and defining women's laws and roles in the context of an indigenous framework can inform and transform the way in which indigenous women, feminists, and indigenous women who are feminists speak to each other both about law and about how we critique Canadian legal theories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Title: Is Culture Taboo? Feminism, Intersectionality, and Culture Talk
in Law.
Authors: Deckha, Maneesha
Source: Canadian Journal of Women & the Law; 2004, Vol. 16 Issue 1,
p14-53, 40p
Document Type: Article
Subject Terms: *CULTURE
*FEMINISM
*FEMINISTS
*MULTICULTURALISM
*WOMEN'S rights
Abstract (English): This article considers whether, and to what
extent, feminists committed to a theory of intersectionality should
welcome the introduction of cultural claims into law. The author
identifies several approaches in feminist legal literature towards
culture discourse in law and canvasses their strengths and weaknesses from an intersectional perspective. She discusses how the concept of culture presents a gendered paradox of particular concern for feminists committed to intersectionality. On the one hand, culture props up normative claims about gender roles that feminists seek to resist under a theory of women's rights. On the other hand, culture serves as a defence that women from minority cultures use against majoritarian cultures and the laws generated by the values within those cultures. In other words, when one adverts to the intersection of gender and cultural oppression, giving respect to culture and multiculturalism seems to be both bad and good for women. The author argues that a commitment to intersectional analysis requires feminists to be responsive to cultural claims when such responsiveness would not actually, intentionally, or foreseeably subordinate the interests of vulnerable members of cultural minorities by worsening their condition. She concludes that the law should permit marginalized cultural groups to make claims about cultural protection or, alternatively, to resist cultural encroachments and that such legal claims need not subordinate cultural dissenters within minority cultures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
ISSN: 0832-8781
Accession Number: 16552805
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Title: Aboriginal Women Unmasked: Using Equality Litigation to Advance
Women's Rights.
Authors: McIvor, Sharon Donna
Source: Canadian Journal of Women & the Law; 2004, Vol. 16 Issue 1,
p106-136, 31p
Document Type: Article
Subject Terms: *BILLS, Legislative
*HUMAN rights
*WOMEN'S rights
*INDIGENOUS women
Geographic Terms: CANADA
Abstract (English): Aboriginal women in Canada do not enjoy rights equal to those shared by other Canadians. Since 1869, colonialist and patriarchal federal laws--most notably the Indian Act--have fostered patriarchy in Aboriginal communities and subjected Aboriginal women to loss of Indian status and the benefits of band membership, eviction from reserve homes, and denial of an equal share of matrimonial property. Colonialism and patriarchy have also enabled cooperation between male Aboriginal leadership and Canadian governments to resist the inclusion of Aboriginal women in Aboriginal governance. These denials and exclusions perpetuate the exposure of Aboriginal women and their children to violence and consign many to extreme poverty. Since 1969, Aboriginal women have turned to the courts to advance their sex equality rights. This article reviews legal challenges brought under the Canadian Bill of Rights, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and international human rights instruments. Drawing on her own struggle to have her children accorded Indian status, the author highlights discriminatory provisions that persist in Bill C-31. Finally, she discusses cases brought by Aboriginal, Inuit, and Métis women's organizations to recognize their right to participate in shaping policies and programs directed at them. Many claims have not succeeded, but the act of bringing legal challenges has itself facilitated political organizing and negotiation to achieve positive change. Litigation for equal rights is not a last resort, but an empowering element of the broad political, social, and legal struggle to eradicate sex discrimination against Aboriginal women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Accession Number: 16552821
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Record: 7
Title: Taking It Off, Putting It On: Women in the Strip Trade.
Authors: Ross, Becki
Source: Canadian Journal of Women & the Law; 2003, Vol. 15 Issue 2,
p378-382, 5p
Document Type: Book Review
Subject Terms: *BOOKS -- Reviews
*STRIPTEASERS
*NONFICTION
Reviews & Products: TAKING It Off, Putting It On: Women in the Strip
Trade (Book)
People: BRUCKERT, Chris
Abstract: Reviews the book "Taking It Off, Putting It On: Women in
the Strip Trade," by Chris Bruckert.
ISSN: 0832-8781
Accession Number: 15398897
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Title: “Gender is No Substitute for Sex”: A Comparative Human Rights
Analysis of the Legal Regulation of Sexual Identity.
Authors: Cowan, Sharon1
Source: Feminist Legal Studies; 2005, Vol. 13 Issue 1, p67-96, 30p
Document Type: Article
Subject Terms: *FEMINISM
*FEMINISTS
*LEGISLATION
*SEX role
*SOCIAL movements
*WOMEN'S rights
Geographic Terms: GREAT Britain
Author-Supplied Keywords: Canadian Charter
gender
human rights
sex
transgender/transsexual
Abstract: U.K. regulation of sexual identity within a marriage
context has traditionally been linked to biological sex. In response to
the European Court of Human Rights decisions in Goodwin and I.,<sup>2</sup> and in order to address the question of whether a transsexual person can be treated as a “real” member of their adoptive sex, the U.K. has recently passed the Gender Recognition Act 2004. While the Act appears to signal a move away from biology and towards a conception of sexual identity based on gender rather than sex, questions of sexual identity remain rooted in medico-legal assessments of the individual transsexual body/mind. In contrast, because transsexual people in some parts of Canada have been able to marry in their post-operative sex since 1990, contemporary debates on the sexual identity of transsexual people in British Columbia and Ontario do not focus on the validity of marriage, and more frequently centre upon the provision of goods and services, in human rights contexts where sex is said to matter. Currently in Canada this is prompting questions of what it means to be a woman in society, how the law should interpret sex and gender, and how, if at all, the parameters of sexual identity should be established in law. This article seeks to compare recent U.K. legal conceptualisations of transsexuality with Canadian law in this area. As human rights discourse begins to grow in the U.K., the question remains as to whether or not gender will become an adequate substitute for sex. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Author Affiliations: 1The Edinburgh Law School, University of
Edinburgh, UK
ISSN: 0966-3622
DOI: 10.1007/s10691-005-1457-2
Accession Number: 17312232
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Title: Marx and MacKinnon: The Promise and Perils of Marxism for
Feminist Legal Theory.
Authors: Sutherland, Kate1
Source: Science & Society; Jan2005, Vol. 69 Issue 1, p113-132, 20p
Document Type: Article
Subject Terms: *FEMINISM
*SOCIAL movements
*SOCIALISM
*WOMEN'S rights
*ACTIVISM
Geographic Terms: NORTH America
Abstract: Catherine MacKinnon, perhaps the dominant voice of North American feminist legal theory over the last two decades, developed her feminist theory of law through an extended metaphor with Marxism. Marxist thought thus became thoroughly intertwined with MacKinnon's particular brand of radical feminism in the minds of many feminist legal scholars and activists. As MacKinnon's work has fallen out of favor in recent years, largely as a result of criticisms leveled against it from postmodern and critical race feminist perspectives, so too has the work of Marx. Setting MacKinnon's Towards a Feminist Theory of the State side by side with Volume I of Capital, and offering a critique of the use she made of Marx's work, reveals the continued relevance of Marxism to feminist legal scholarship and activism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] Author Affiliations: 1Osgoode Hall Law School, 4700 Keale Street
North York, Ontario, M3J 1P3 Canada.
ISSN: 0036-8237
Accession Number: 16942996
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Title: Imperilled Muslim Women, Dangerous Muslim Men and Civilised
Europeans: Legal and Social Responses to Forced Marriages.
Authors: Razack, Sherene H.1
Source: Feminist Legal Studies; 2004, Vol. 12 Issue 2, p129-174, 46p
Document Type: Article
Subject Terms: *FEMINISM