Editorial

This issue is devoted to Canadian scholarship and creative work on lesbian, bisexual, queer, and transsexual/transgender sexualities. The articles, submitted by scholars, writers, researchers, and community workers from across Canada, grapple with contradictions and tensions including the contempora...

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Published inCanadian woman studies Vol. 24; no. 2/3; p. 3
Main Authors Burstow, Bonnie, Rosenberg, Sharon, Bociurkiw, Marusya, Sand, Cy-Thea, Millward, Liz, Dobinson, Cheryl, Lee, Ruthann, Medovarski, Andrea
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Downsview Inanna Publications and Education Inc 01.01.2005
Subjects
Attitudes
Bisexuals
Creativity
Gays & lesbians
Gender
Negotiation
Self concept
Sexuality
Therapy
Transgender persons
Canada
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Summary:This issue is devoted to Canadian scholarship and creative work on lesbian, bisexual, queer, and transsexual/transgender sexualities. The articles, submitted by scholars, writers, researchers, and community workers from across Canada, grapple with contradictions and tensions including the contemporary possibilities and limits of identity and identification, the complexities of "inclusion" (i.e., through state recognition of same sex relationships), the necessity and problematics of anti-homophobia education, and the complicated ways in which sexual and gender outlaw identities are claimed, refused, negotiated, and desired. Current debates and concerns focus on defamilarizing gay identities, exposing fundamentalist excesses (such as "reparative" therapies), and critiquing the attitudes within our own communities that sometimes recreate existing prejudices: western centricity, urban superiority, gender binaries, and women's oppression.
ISSN:0713-3235