Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection

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The Pervert's New Statesman: Justice Weekly, Advocacy, and Sexuality in Post-War Canada

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Year: 2019, 2019
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Harding, Devon, Thesis advisor (ths): Dummitt, Christopher, Degree committee member (dgc): Durand, Caroline, Degree committee member (dgc): Miron, Janet, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
Abstract: <p>Justice Weekly was a tabloid published in Toronto from 1946 to 1972. The popular narrative is that it was an unremarkable, obscure, and pornographic paper which was co-opted by gay and homophile voices in the 1950s. But why did a magazine best remembered, as Mordecai Richler put it, as "the pervert's new statesman" publish this material? This thesis argues that Justice… more
Full Text: The Pervert’s New Statesman: Justice Weekly, Advocacy, and Sexuality in Post-War Canada A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the Faculty of Arts and Science …