279 P - Making Meaning in Intimate and Social Spaces: The Heart of the US Lesbian and Gay Movement

Sunday, June 4, 2017: 9:00 AM-10:30 AM
Plaza room 1 (Hofstra University)
Chair:
Ardis Cameron, University of Southern Maine
Baby Steps: The Voyage of Lesbian and Gay Families from the Shadows to the Center of Civil Rights Debates
Ellen Lewin, University of Iowa
Lesbians at Home: Letter Writing and Making Meaning of Intimacy
Chelsea Del Rio, University of Michigan
"What women who share in life and work can mean to the world": Edith Abbott and Sophonisba Breckinridge at the University of Chicago, 1903-1948
Anya Jabour, University of Montana
Dreams of a New World: The Intimate Spaces of Lesbian Movement Building in the 1970s
Evelyn Blackwood, Purdue University

Session Abstract

The heart of identity movements rests on the everyday lives of individuals as they create alternative social spaces and models of intimacy and family. These social and intimate spaces are replete with stories, narratives, art and literature that bring into being and solidify new meanings and possibilities. At the same time, established hierarchies of race and space reinforce old patterns in new spaces. This panel explores the meanings and narratives that are conjured in social and intimate spaces between women friends and lovers--in the bars, on the softball fields, at home, and through letters.

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