Remaking History: Lesbian Feminist Historical Methods in the Digital Humanities

Remaking History: Lesbian Feminist Historical Methods in the Digital Humanities. SCHWARTZ, M. & CROMPTON, C. In Losh, E. & Wernimont, J., editors, Bodies of Information, of Intersectional Feminism and the Digital Humanities, pages 131–156. University of Minnesota Press, 2018.

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Writing of her experience in the early 1990s, sociologist Becki Ross points to “generational chauvinism” that reduced radical lesbians of the 1970s to stereotypes, leaving her peers to assume that the previous generation was “shrill and humourless.” The history Ross says her generation did know “comically reduced [lesbian feminists] to excessive flannel, vigilantly practiced downward mobility … strict vegetarianism, and syrupy, sentimentalized fiction.”¹ There had been a similar generational rift between lesbian feminists and the women of the bar scene that preceded them, “compounded by often outright rejection of what little was known, [which] rendered impossible the building of bridges

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