The House that Jill Built : A Lesbian Nation in Formation / Becki Ross.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ross, Becki, author.

Series:

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lesbian Organization of Toronto.

Lesbians--Ontario--Toronto--Societies and clubs.

Lesbians.

Ontario--Toronto.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 357 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In The House That Jill Built, Becki Ross explores the dedicated struggle of a largely white, middle-class group of lesbian feminists to subvert the history of lesbian invisibility and persecution by claiming a collective, empowering, public presence in Toronto during the mid- to late 1970s.

Contents:

1. Shaking the ground: The emergence of lesbian-feminist discourse

2. Independent lesbian-feminist organizing

3. 'Family of Womon We've Begun': Envisioning Lesbian Nation

4. The politics of lesbian-feminist life/style

5. Mining lesbian-feminist sexual discourse and practice

6. LOOT's structure and program: Politics redefined

7. Coalition politics: Lesbian feminists meet gay liberationists

8. Coalition politics: Lesbian feminists meet women's liberationists

9. LOOT's closure: An evaluation

10. Back to the future: Concluding notes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Aug 2019)

ISBN:

1-4875-7957-8

OCLC:

1114783683