The decade of the 1970s is commonly remembered for its kitschy
contributions to popular culture -- bean-bag chairs, platform
shoes, bell-bottoms, disaster movies, disco, hot tubs, and hot
pants. In The House That Jill Built, Becki Ross offers a rare view
of this decade -- one that shows community-based activism
challenging the prevailing tenets of individualism and conspicuous
consumerism. Ross explores the dedicated struggle of a largely
white, middle-class group of lesbian feminists to subvert the
history of lesbian invisibility and persecution by claiming a
collective, empowering, public presence in Toronto during the mid-
to late 1970s. Gathering information from archival sources and
numerous interviews with lesbians who were active in the feminist,
left, and gay-liberation movements in the 1970s, Ross provides a
window onto complex developments in community, identity, and
visionary politics. She uses the Lesbian Organization of Toronto
(LOOT, 1976-80) as a centrepiece, tracing the route that LOOT
members took in enacting their desire to politicize the personal,
in order to be lesbian in all aspects of their lives. Ross
investigates the properties intrinsic to 'lesbian nationalism':
fashion, sexuality, relationships, living arrangements, group
membership, service provision, cultural production, and political
strategy-making. The House That Jill Built convincingly analyses
the significant achievements of lesbian feminism in the 1970s as
well as the limitations of identity-based organizing. The book is
especially useful for those interested in the fields of women's
studies, cultural studies, queer theory, and social movements.
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