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Previous Prizes for Best Article on the History of Sexuality
in Canada
2010 Prize
The Canadian Committee on the History of Sexuality is pleased to
announce the recipient of its ‘Prize for Best Article.’ The 2010 Prize goes
to Patrick Dunae (University of Victoria) for his article, “Geographies of Sexual Commerce and the Production
of Prostitutional Space: Victoria, British Columbia, 1860-1914,” which appeared in the Journal
of the Canadian Historical Association 19, 1(2008). The selection
committee was particularly impressed by how Dunae deftly contextualized his
rich historical study of prostitution in Victoria within the international
literature on the ‘spatial turn,’ most evident in Dunae’s use of Henri
Lefebvre’s work on the ‘production of space.’ In this way, Dunae’s article
extends in a highly productive fashion the commitment to empirical research
and theoretical sophistication that have become a hallmark of the
historiography of sexuality in Canada.
2008 Prize
The Canadian
Committee on the History of Sexuality is pleased to announce the co-winners
of our 2008 Prize for Best Article: Marie-Aimee Cliche (UQAM), “Du
péché au traumatisme: L’inceste, vu de la Cour des jeunes délinquants et de
la Cour bien-être social de Montréal, 1912-1965” Canadian Historical Review
87(June 2006) and Tamara
Myers (UBC), “Embodying Delinquency: Boys’ Bodies,
Sexuality, and Juvenile Justice History in Early-Twentieth-Century Québec”
Journal of the History
of Sexuality 14 (October 2005). Cliche and Myers make
particularly fitting co-winners, for they both focus on the same place and
time, employing some of the same sources – early- to mid-twentieth-century
Montreal court records – to give us two distinctive takes on the history of
sexuality. Drawing on feminism and the work of Ian Hacking, Cliche provides
a sensitively negotiated overview of the changing understandings of
incestuous relations, underscoring how sexual meanings are subject to
historical pressures and can shift dramatically over an even relatively
short period of time. Myers deploys sexuality to complicate in useful ways
much current thinking on the history of gender and ‘juvenile delinquency,’
demonstrating that for some boys, like for many girls, the definition of
delinquency could be sexual, even if that sexualization played out in
highly gendered ways. Cliche and Myers both have made original and
substantial contributions to the history of sexuality in Canada, furnishing
studies at once empirically rich and historiographically engaged.
2006 Prize
The 2006 Prize
for Best Article on the History of Sexuality in Canada was awarded to Jean Barman for
her essay, "Aboriginal
Women on the Streets of Victoria: Rethinking Transgressive Sexuality During
the Colonial Encounter" in Contact Zones: Aboriginal and Settler Women in
Canada's Colonial Past, edited by Katie Pickles and Myra
Rutherdale (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2005). In selecting the article, the jury
commended Barman for her sensitive recreation of both the sexual conflicts
and possibilities experienced by Aboriginal women, and for her nuanced
rethinking of the identities and motives of white settler men in their
sexual exchanges with First Nations women. Barman's essay also advances the
Canadian historiography by locating the history of sexuality within the
context of Canada's colonial past.
2004 Prize
The Canadian Committee
on the History of Sexuality is pleased to announce that its 2004 Prize for
Best Article goes to Karen
Duder for her essay, "Public Acts and Private
Languages: Bisexuality and the Multiple Discourses of Constance Grey Swartz,"
which appeared in BC
Studies (Winter 2002/03). In selecting this article from a pool
of particularly strong nominations, the jury highlighted the essay's
originality, offering as it does a way to think about the complexity of
sexual identity in the past. The jury was also struck by the literary
qualities of Constance Swartz's journals, something reflected in Duder's
own narrative, and which lends to the essay a personal, intimate voice too
often lost in studies of sexual regulation.
2002 Prize
The CCHS Prize
for Best Article was awarded for the first time in 2002. The selection
committee elected to name two co-winners. Becki L. Ross, "Bumping and Grinding on the
Line: Making Nudity Pay," Labour/Le Travail
46(Fall/automne 2000). A
wonderfully original examination of the ‘spectacle’ of striptease which
highlights the seldom explored linkage between labour history and the
history of sexuality. Franca Iacovetta,
"The Sexual Politics of Moral Citizenship: Containing ‘Dangerous’
Foreign Men in Cold War Canada, 1950s-1960s," Histoire
sociale/Social History 33(November/novembre 2000). An important paper which explores postwar Canadian
sexual norms within a complex framework that analyzes the intersections of
race/ethnicity, class and gender.
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