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Site updates

We have added some updates to members' notes (below) and new links including Saskatchewan Resources for Sexual Diversity - see our Links page.

CCHS Prize 2008

The competition for the 2008 Prize for Best Article on the History of Sexuality in Canada has now been announced - details on our Awards page.

Members' Notes

To add or update your note, let us know at jenea.tallentire [at] ucfv.ca

Barry D Adam (Windsor) has a new article on “The ‘Defense of Marriage Act’ and American exceptionalism” Journal of the History of Sexuality 12 (2003,2):259-276. The article investigates why the United States appears to be so out of step on relationship recognition when compared with Canada and western Europe. (His companion piece on Canada is "Moral Regulation and the Disintegrating Canadian State" in The Global Emergence of Gay and Lesbian Politics, eds. Barry D Adam, Jan Willem Duyvendak, and André Krouwel. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1999.) He is currently chair of the American Sociological Association Section on the Sociology of Sexualities for 2004.

Elise Chenier (McGill): I am a member of the newly-formed (2003) McGill Subcommittee for a Minor in Sex and Gender Diversity. Next year I will be teaching a new course in the Women's Studies program, "Feminisms and Sexualities." I also have two forthcoming publications: “The Criminal Sexual Psychopath in Canada: Sex, Psychiatry and the Law at
Mid-Century” Canadian Bulletin of Medical History (forthcoming Fall 2002
issue) and “Segregating Sexualities: The prison ‘sex problem’ in twentieth century Canada and the United States" in Isolation: Places and Practices of Exclusion, eds.
Carolyn Strange and Alison Bashford (Routledge, forthcoming May 2003).

Jennifer Evans (Carleton): This summer I am the Jeffrey Grinspoon and The Harold Grinspoon Foundation Fellow for the Persecution of Homosexuals under the Nazi Regime (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington DC) for the project ‘In the Name of the People’: The Legal and Medical Management of Homosexuality in Hitler's Germany.' I also received a three-year SSHRC Standard Grant for my on-going project entitled, "Policing Homosexuality in Nazi and Divided Germany, 1935-69" (it was for $75,000 -- I mention it because it shows tremendous support for the topic). And lastly, my article, "Bahnhof Boys: Policing Male Prostitution in Post-Nazi Berlin" will appear in sometime in 2003 in the Journal of the History of Sexuality special edition on post-1945 sexualities.

Alan Hunt (Carleton) currently teaches a 3rd/4th year course just called "Sex" which is organised around a debate about Foucault's History of Sexuality. He's happy to supply a course outline, etc. if anyone is interested - ahunt [at] ccs.carleton.ca Recent publications include: "Regulating Heterosocial Space: Sexual Politics in the Early Twentieth Century" Journal of Historical Sociology 15/1 (2002): 1-34 and (with Heidi Rimke), "From Sinners to Degenerates: The Medicalization of Morality in the Nineteenth Century" History of the Human Sciences 15/1 (2002): 59-88.

Angus McLaren has a new book out: Sexual Blackmail: A Modern History (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002).

Isabelle Perreault (University of Ottawa): Je termine présentement mon doctorat en histoire sur les savoirs psychiatriques au Québec francophone, 1920-1955 (dir. André Cellard). J'ai publié en 2004, « Morale catholique et genre féminin, la sexualité dissertée dans les manuels de sexualité maritale au Québec, 1930-1960 » dans la Revue d’histoire de l’Amérique française et en 2005, avec Candis Steenbergen, « Entre deux solitudes », Dialogues sur la 3e vague féministe: Enjeux, pratiques et défis, Maria Nengeh Mensah (dir.).

Becki Ross (UBC) just received a 2-year Hampton grant (19,000) to do further research on 'girlie shows' at the Pacific National Exhibition (Vancouver), 1910-1970. A paper jointly written by Ross and Erin Bentley, "Gold-Plated Footballs and Orchids for Girls, A 'Palace of Sweat' for Men: Athletics at UBC, 1945-1955, will be published in January 2004 by Frank Cass Publishers, UK, in a collection, Memory, Movement and Modernism, edited by Patricia Vertinsky. She also has a chapter, "Striptease on the Line: Investigating Trends in Female Erotic Entertainment," newly published in a text edited by Deborah Brock, Making Normal: Social Regulation in Canada, Thompson Nelson, 2003.

Christabelle Sethna (Ottawa): I have Health Canada funding to work on a project looking at peer sexual health education. If anyone would like to let me know about youths educating youths about sexual health issues (scholarly references, books, organizations, groups, assorted material) they can do so at my email addres - csethna [at] uottawa.ca

Marc Stein (York): I'm continuing work on my second book project, “The U.S. Supreme Court's Sexual Revolution? 1965-1973,” which was funded by a SSHRC Standard Research Grant and which examines, among other cases, the deportation of Nova Scotia-born Clive Michael Boutilier from the United States in 1967 (on the grounds that as a "homosexual" he necessarily had a psychopathic personality). In 2003, Scribner’s published the Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History in America(3 volumes), for which I served as editor-in-chief, and in 2004 Temple University Press published a paperback edition, with a new preface, of my first book, City of Sisterly and Brotherly Loves: Lesbian and Gay Philadelphia, 1945-1972. I’ve had articles published recently in GLQ, Radical History Review, Law and History Review, and Torquere, and in 2004-05 presented work at Colby College, Rutgers University, the University of California-Santa Barbara, the University of Maine, and the University of Pennsylvania, as well as the Queer Matters conference in London (England), the Symposium on North American Sexualities at the University of Massachusetts- Amherst, and the Organization of American Historians conference. In 2005-06 I am offering, in addition to courses on U.S. legal history and U.S. social movements history, a graduate course on the history of sexuality in the United States, Canada, and Western Europe; a graduate course on queer theory; and an undergraduate course on queer cultures. In January 2006.
York Sexuality Studies Program: http://www.yorku.ca/wmst/sxst

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