The Feminist Revolution revisits the second wave of women’s liberation activism in both the U.S. and England in a thematic, beautifully illustrated volume that is part coffee-table art book, part teaching text. Nine chapters look critically at the key aspects of feminist action in the 1963–1988 era: political equality, work and wages, black feminism, lesbian identity, reproductive rights and health, art and publishing, anti-war activism, and much more. Each chapter contains several sidebars on specific turning points or institutions, with careful attention to lesbian leadership in each–films, publishing, legal rights, and the women’s music movement.
Category Archives: Member Publications
Jerry Watkins, Queering the Redneck Riviera: Sexuality and the Rise of Florida Tourism
After World War II North Florida’s municipalities were in perpetual competition for tourists on the increasingly open market. When queer visibility threatened reputations for good clean fun, authorities moved swiftly to foreclose queer expression. Queering the Redneck Riviera recovers the forgotten and erased history of those gay men and lesbians. The work illuminates a community that boosted Florida’s emerging tourist economy and helped establish a visible LGBTQ presence in the Sunshine State. It offers new insights into the intersections of tourism, sexuality, capitalism, and conservative morality in the second half of the twentieth century.
Julio Capó, Jr., Welcome to Fairyland: Queer Miami before 1940
In chronicling Miami’s transnational queer past from its 1896 founding through 1940, Welcome to Fairyland shows the multifaceted ways gender and sexual renegades made the city their own. Drawing from a multilingual archive, Julio Capó, Jr. unearths the forgotten history of “fairyland,” a marketing term crafted by urban boosters that held multiple meanings for different groups of people. This book turns our attention to migrants and immigrants, tourism, and trade to and from the Caribbean-particularly the Bahamas, Cuba, and Haiti-to expand the geographic and methodological parameters of urban and queer history.