Books: Documents Available Online

General commentaries
Listed by subject (more or less; as shown in bold)

The Happy Bookers
Lesbian and Gay Archivist, # 12, Jun 1996 (unsigned)
http://www.clga.ca/About/LGArchivist/v12/bookers.htm
Or, "The Continued Growth of the James Fraser Library" of the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives. From our 1996 online newsletter, noting many books received in the previous year.

Reviews of specific books
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Canadian Content?
A Not So Gay World: Homosexuality in Canada
Marion Foster and Kent Murray, McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, 1972
Review by Ed Jackson, The Body Politic, late 1972
http://www.clga.ca/Material/Books/docs/notsogay.htm
The first mainstream book on homosexuality published in Canada -- pseudonymously authored and critically received by a young and growing gay liberation movement. Both the book and the review are characteristic of their time -- a period of shifting public and personal perceptions of gay life. Appx 1,200 words, including an introduction.
Regulating Desire
The Regulation of Desire: Homo and Hetero Sexualities
Gary Kinsman, Black Rose Books, Montreal, 1996
Review by Karen Dubinsky, Centre/Fold
(Toronto Centre for Lesbian and Gay Studies), # 10, Spring 1996
http://www.clga.ca/Material/Books/docs/regdes.htm
This is the second edition of Gary's book (the first appeared in 1987) -- but it remains the only major historical study of sexuality in Canada. Karen Dubinsky notes new richness in this edition -- and gaps in Canadian sexual historiography that still need attention. Appx 1,450 words.
Lesbian Feminism in Its Prime
The House That Jill Built: A Lesbian Nation in Formation
Becki Ross, University of Toronto Press, 1995
Review by Amy Gottlieb, Centre/Fold
(Toronto Centre for Lesbian and Gay Studies), # 10, Spring 1996
http://www.clga.ca/Material/Books/docs/jill.htm
A study (the only book-length one to date on a single Canadian lesbian or gay group) on the Lesbian Organization of Toronto (LOOT, 1976 - 1980) -- short-lived but hugely influential. Amy, who was a member, examines this '90s queer take on '70s lesbian separatism -- with some words on the risks and rewards of oral history. Appx 1,700 words, introduction included.

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