Identities and Selfhood Amongst Lesbians in Scotland 1970-2000

它的主要主管是爱丁堡大学的Wendy Ugolini博士，尽管来自斯特拉斯克莱德大学的Arthur mccivor教授和Yvette Taylor教授将提供额外的监督专业知识。利用原始访谈，以及由社区团体收集的四十份存档证词，该项目将对现代苏格兰女同性恋者的生活进行首次重大研究。该项目将考虑1970年至2000年间，女性如何在苏格兰社会和跨国女同性恋亚文化中协商自己的性取向。广泛的女同性恋经历将被恢复，包括来自农村、工人阶级和BME背景的女性。这种研究的史学背景如下。自20世纪80年代以来，历史学家开始揭示英国女同性恋的历史。然而，他们的出版物仍然以英国为中心，特别是关于1945年之后的时期。在学术和大众的描述中，伦敦和英格兰南部以外的女同性恋经历甚至很少被提及。其结果是，英国其他地区的女同性恋者认为地域文化在她们的性史中没有发挥积极作用，从而使她们的经历变得沉默。在苏格兰，杰夫·米克在他关于男同性恋者的研究中发现了一种独特的“酷儿”文化。尽管苏格兰女同性恋者从未被定罪，但与男性不同，米克的研究提出了一个问题，即女性如何与一个特别“恐同”的长老会文化互动。该项目将探索这一建议，并更广泛地调查苏格兰女同性恋的独特性。在扩大女同性恋传统上所处的地理边界的同时，这个项目也将建立在20世纪英国关于“同性恋自我创造”的更广泛讨论之上。在女同性恋历史上，劳拉·多恩和丽贝卡·詹宁斯都强调了女同性恋集体身份在两次世界大战之间和战后时期对女性的重要性。她们展示了女性如何利用和挑战这些身份来表达和确立自己的同性恋身份。虽然Doan和Jennings关注的是在相对较新的“女同性恋”类别出现之前的身份认同，但该项目通过反思1970年后苏格兰女性对现代女同性恋身份的谈判来发展他们的工作。与跨国同性恋解放运动密切相关的是，现代女同性恋的出现引发了一系列新的问题，即女性是如何被高度政治化和可见的女同性恋政治塑造的。总而言之，这个项目将是第一个对现代苏格兰女同性恋生活的主要研究，也是第一个考虑英国女同性恋历史中地区差异的研究。通过探索1970年至2000年间苏格兰女同性恋身份的形成，它也将围绕现代女同性恋的形成的讨论推向了20世纪末。该项目的贡献将特别有价值，因为它承诺涉及各种各样的苏格兰女同性恋者。到目前为止，英国女同性恋史在很大程度上局限于对白人中产阶级女性的研究。通过对农村、工人阶级和BME女同性恋者的另类叙述，该项目可能会使学者们迄今为止研究这一主题的既定框架复杂化。除了项目的史学贡献外，它的现场工作将被存放在爱丁堡大学的声音档案馆。虽然该档案馆包含了非常丰富的口述历史，但目前还没有苏格兰LGBT+社区的证据。一个女同性恋档案将为爱丁堡的收藏增加一个新的“酷儿”维度，同时让未来的学者能够接触到苏格兰社会历史的宝贵记录。

Its primary supervisor is Dr. Wendy Ugolini at the University of Edinburgh, although Professor Arthur McIvor and Professor Yvette Taylor from the University of Strathclyde will provide additional supervisory expertise.Using original interviews, as well as forty archived testimonies collected by community groups,this project will conduct the first major study into the lives of modern Scottish lesbians.The project will consider how women negotiated their sexuality within both Scottish society and a transnational lesbian subculture between 1970 and 2000. A broad range of lesbian experience will be recovered including women from rural, working-class, and BME backgrounds.The historiographical context of such research is as follows. Since the 1980s historians have begun to uncover the history of British lesbianism. However their publications remain remarkably Anglo-centric, particularly concerning the period after 1945. In both academic and popular accounts the lesbian experience outside of London and the south of England is rarely even referenced. The effect of this has been to mute the experiences of lesbians in other parts of the UK by assuming that regional cultures played no active role in their sexual histories. In Scotland's case a distinct 'queer' culture has been identified by Jeff Meek in his work on gay men. Although Scottish lesbians were never criminalised, unlike their male counterparts, Meek's study raises questions about how women interacted with a particularly 'homophobic' presbyterian culture. The project will explore this suggestion and investigate the distinctiveness of Scottish lesbianism more generally.While expanding the geographical boundaries in which lesbianism has traditionally been situated, this project will also build on wider discussions about 'homosexual self-making' in twentieth-century Britain. Within lesbian history, both Laura Doan and Rebecca Jennings have highlighted the significance of collective lesbian identities to women in the inter-war and post-war periods. They have shown how women both used and contested these identities to articulate and establish their own homosexuality. While Doan and Jennings were concerned with identities which pre-dated the relatively recent category of 'lesbian', the project develops their work by reflecting on Scottish women's negotiations of the modern lesbian identity which arose after 1970. Intimately connected to a transnational Gay Liberation movement, the emergence of modern lesbianism raises a new set of questions about how women were shaped by highly political and visible lesbian politics.In sum, this project will be the first major study into the lives of modern Scottish lesbians and the first piece of research to consider regional difference within the history of British lesbianism. By exploring Scottish lesbians' identity formation between 1970 and 2000, it will also push discussions surrounding the making of modern lesbianism to the end of the twentieth century. The project's contribution will be particularly valuable because of its commitment to involving a diverse range of Scottish lesbians. So far British lesbian history has largely limited itself to the study of white, middle-class women. By including alternative narratives of rural, working-class, and BME lesbians, the project will potentially complicate the established frameworks by which scholars have hitherto examined the subject. Outside of the project's historiographical contribution, its fieldwork will be deposited at the University of Edinburgh's Sound Archive. While the archive contains a very rich oral history collection, it currently has no evidence of Scotland's LGBT+ community. A lesbian archive will add a new 'queer' dimension to Edinburgh's collection while allowing future scholars to access an invaluable record of Scottish social history.