Identities and Selfhood Amongst Lesbians in Scotland 1970-2000

它的主要监督人是爱丁堡大学的温迪·乌戈利尼博士，尽管斯特拉斯克莱德大学的亚瑟·麦克沃尔教授和伊薇特·泰勒教授将提供额外的监督专业知识。利用原始访谈，以及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。该项目将考虑女性如何协商自己的性取向在1970年到2000年之间，苏格兰社会和跨国女同性恋亚文化中。一个广泛的女同性恋的经验将恢复，包括妇女从农村，工人阶级，和BME背景。自20世纪80年代以来，历史学家开始揭开英国女同性恋的历史。然而，他们的出版物仍然显着的盎格鲁中心，特别是关于1945年后的时期。在学术和流行的帐户女同性恋的经验以外的伦敦和英格兰南部甚至很少提到。这样做的结果是，假设地区文化在英国其他地区的女同性恋者的性历史中没有发挥积极作用，从而掩盖了女同性恋者的经历。在苏格兰，杰夫·米克（Jeff Meek）在他关于男同性恋的作品中发现了一种独特的“酷儿”文化。尽管苏格兰的女同性恋者从未被定罪，但与男同性恋者不同，米克的研究提出了女性如何与特别“恐同”的长老会文化互动的问题。该项目将探讨这一建议，并调查苏格兰女同性恋的独特性更普遍。同时扩大女同性恋传统上所处的地理边界，这个项目也将建立在更广泛的讨论“同性恋自我制作”在二十世纪的英国。在女同性恋历史中，劳拉多安和丽贝卡詹宁斯都强调了集体女同性恋身份对两次世界大战之间和战后妇女的重要性。他们展示了女性如何利用和质疑这些身份来表达和建立自己的同性恋。虽然多安和詹宁斯关注的是早于相对较新的“女同性恋”类别的身份，该项目通过反思苏格兰妇女对1970年后出现的现代女同性恋身份的谈判来发展他们的工作。现代女同性恋的出现与跨国同性恋解放运动密切相关，它提出了一系列新的问题，即高度政治化和明显的女同性恋政治如何塑造女性。总而言之，该项目将是第一个对现代苏格兰女同性恋者生活的重大研究，也是第一项考虑英国女同性恋历史上地区差异的研究。通过探索1970年至2000年期间苏格兰女同性恋者的身份形成，它还将围绕现代女同性恋的形成的讨论推向二十世纪末。该项目的贡献将特别宝贵，因为它致力于让各种各样的苏格兰女同性恋者参与进来。到目前为止，英国女同性恋史主要局限于对白色中产阶级妇女的研究。通过包括农村，工人阶级和BME女同性恋者的替代叙事，该项目可能会使学者迄今为止研究该主题的既定框架复杂化。除了该项目的史学贡献外，其实地工作将存放在爱丁堡大学的声音档案馆。虽然该档案馆包含非常丰富的口述历史收藏，但目前没有苏格兰LGBT+社区的证据。一个女同性恋档案馆将为爱丁堡的收藏增加一个新的“酷儿”维度，同时允许未来的学者访问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.