Authors
Ross,
Becki
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Becki Ross is
an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology and
Sociology at the University of British Columbia (UBC). Becki
has done
research in lesbian/gay liberation movements, pornography
and censorship,
varsity female athletes in the 1950s at UBC, and is writing
a book on burlesque and striptease in post-war Vancouver.
Becki is also the editor of Sexuality
Studies,
published by University of British Columbia. Their first publication,
Bobby Jean Noble's Masculinities Without Men? is now in print. |
Ross, Becki. “Sex and (evacuation from) the city: the moral and legal regulation of sex workers in Vancouver’s West End, 1975-1985.” Sexualities. 13(2) (April 2010): 197-218.
Ross, Becki and Kim Greenwell. "Spectacular striptease:
performing the sexual and racial other in Vancouver, B.C., 1945-1975." Journal of Women's History. 17(1) (March 2005): 137-164.
Ross, Becki and Erin Bentley. "Gold-plated footballs and orchids for girls, a 'palace of sweat' for men:
athletics at UBC, 1945-1955." p.99-116. In Disciplining Bodies in the Gymnasium: Memory, Movement, and Modernism. Edited by Patricia Vertinsky and Sherry McKay. London and New York: Routledge, 2004.
Ross, Becki L. “'Book reviews: Challenging
the Conspiracy of Silence: My Life as a Canadian Gay Activist /
Jim Egan ; compiled and edited by Donald W. McLeod.” BC Studies. 136 (Winter 2002): 135-138.
Ross, Becki. "Shaken and stirred.” A regular series
in Xtra West (Vancouver),
2001-2002. (Copies are available at the Canadian
Lesbian and Gay Archives, Toronto)
Ross, Becki L. “Bumping and grinding on the line: making
nudity pay,” Labour/le
Travail. 46 (Fall 2000):
221-250. HD8101.L22
Canadian Historical Association 2002
best article on the history of sexuality in Canada history prize
Canadian Committee on the History of Sexuality 2002 prize for best article.
Ross, Becki L. “'The stubborn clutter, the undeniable record,
the burning, wilful evidence': teaching the history of sexuality.” Atlantis:
A Women's Studies Journal. 25(1) (Fall 2000): 28-38.
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Ross, Becki. “Hoochie coochie queers? Femme dykes and gay men
in Vancouver's burlesque.” Xtra West.
(April 6, 2000): 21.
Ross, Becki. “Lesbian politics and culture in English Canada.” pp.
142-146. In Encyclopedia of Lesbianism,
Volume I. Edited by Bonnie Zimmerman. New York:
Garland Publishing, 2000.
Elisa Kukla "Studying strippers: media went bonkers over burlesque
show research." Xtra! (Toronto).
November 16, 2000. (On Becki Ross's research on strippers.)
Ross, Becki L. and Catharina Landstrom. “Normalization
vs. diversity: lesbian identity and organizing in Sweden
and Canada.” p.310-346. In
Women’s
Organizing and Public Policy in Canada and Sweden.
Edited by Linda Briskin and Mona Eliasson. Montreal;
Kingston: McGill-Queen’s
University Press, 1999. HQ1233 .W6 1999
Ross, Becki. “'Down at the whorehouse?': Reflections on Christian
community service and female sex deviance at Toronto's
Street Haven, 1965-1969.” Atlantis:
A Women's Studies Journal. 23(1) (Fall 1998): 48-59.
HQ1180 .A1A85
See review by Valerie
J. Korniek in Canadian
Historical Review. 81(3), September 2000.
[Ross, Becki et al.] The Discipline and Place Collective.“Moving
spaces/firm groundings: an interview of Rey Chow." Environment
and Planning D: Society and Space. 15(5) (October
1997): 509-532. H1 .E58
Ross, Becki L. “Destaining the (tattooed) delinquent body:
the practices of moral regulation at Toronto's Street
Haven, 1965-1969.” The
Journal of the History of Sexuality. 7(4) (April
1997): 561-595. HQ12 .A1J66
Ross, Becki L. “How Lavender Jane loved women: re-figuring
identity-based life/stylism in 1970s lesbian feminism.” Journal
of Canadian Studies. 30(4) (Winter 1995-96): 110-128.
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See review by Amy Gottlieb "Lesbian feminism in its prime." Centre/Fold (Toronto
Centre for Lesbian and Gay Studies). 10, Spring 1996. (This electronic
version is via the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives homepage)
See review by Susan G. Cole in Canadian
Woman Studies 16(2) (1996): 123-124.
Ross, Becki L. “Dance to 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon,' getting churched and buy the little lady a drink: gay women's bar culture in Toronto, 1965-1975."
p.267-287 In Weaving Alliances : Selected Papers Presented for the Canadian Women's Studies Association at the 1991 and 1992 Learned Societies Conferences. Edited by Debra Martens ; introduced by Greta Hofmann Nemiroff. Ottawa: Canadian Women's Studies Association = Association canadienne des études sur les femmes, 1993.
HQ1106 .W43 1993
Ross, Becki. "Like apples and oranges: lesbian feminist responses
to the politics of The Body Politic." Fuse
Magazine.
16(4) (May/June, 1993): 19-23,26-28. NX513 .A1F88
McLeod, Donald W. "Notes on a
deviant historian: young lesbian & gay scholars like Becki
Ross are opening new fields of research at our universities." Xtra! (Toronto).
195 (17 April 1992): 13,15.
Ross, Becki. “Tracking lesbian speech: the social organization
of lesbian periodical publishing in English Canada, 1973-1988."
In Women's Writing
and the Literary Institution. Calgary: University
of Alberta, Research Institute for Comparative Literature, 1992.
PS8089.5.W6 W67 1992
Becki Ross interview. In Thank God I'm a Lesbian. A film by Laurie Colbert and Dominique Cardona.
New York: Women Make Movies, 1992.
Ross, Becki. “Sex, lives, and archives: pleasure/danger
debates in 1970s lesbian feminism." p.89-112. In Women
Changing Academe : The Proceedings of the 1990 Canadian Women's
Studies
Association
Conference / Sandra L. Kirby ... [et al.], editors. Winnipeg : Sororal Publishing,
1991. HQ1181.C3 C36 1991
Ross, Becki. "The house that Jill built: lesbian feminist
organizing in Toronto, 1976-1980." Feminist
Review.
35 (1990): 75-91.
Ross, Becki. "Heterosexuals only need apply: The Secretary
of State's regulation of lesbian existence." Resources
for Feminist Research/Documentation sur la recherche feministe.
17(3) (1988): 35-38. HQ1101.Z9 R47
Ross, Becki. "Launching lesbian cultural offensives." Resources
for Feminist Research/Documentation sur la recherche feministe.
17(2) (June 1988):12-15. HQ1101.Z9 R47
Awards and Honours
Canadian Historical Association 2002 best article on the history of sexuality in Canada history prize
Canadian Committee on the History of Sexuality 2002 prize for best article.
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