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Bucking Conservatism: Part II: Defying Heteropatriarchy

Bucking Conservatism
Part II: Defying Heteropatriarchy

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table of contents
  1. Cover
  2. Preface
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Introduction
  5. Part I: Indigenous Activism and Resistance
    1. Introduction
    2. 1. Indian Status as the Foundation of Justice
    3. 2. Teaching It Our Way: Blue Quills and the Demand for Indigenous Educational Autonomy
    4. 3. “We are on the outside looking in [. . .]. But we are still Indians”: Alberta Indigenous Women Fighting for Status Rights, 1968–85
  6. Part II: Defying Heteropatriarchy
    1. Introduction
    2. 4. Fed Up with the Status Quo: Alberta Women’s Groups Challenge Maternalist Ideology and Secure Provincial Funding for Daycare, 1964–71
    3. 5. Gay Liberation in Conservative Calgary
    4. 6. Contraception, Community, and Controversy: The Lethbridge Birth Control and Information Centre, 1972–78
    5. 7. “Ultra Activists” in a “Very Closeted Place”: The Early Years of Edmonton’s Gay Alliance Toward Equality, 1972–77
  7. Part III: Doing Politics in a New Way
    1. Introduction
    2. 8. Daring to Be Left in Social Credit Alberta: Recollections of a Young New Democratic Party Activist in the 1960s
    3. 9. Socialist Survival: The Woodsworth-Irvine Socialist Fellowship and the Preservation of Radical Thought in Alberta
    4. 10. Learning Marxism from Tom Flanagan: Left-Wing Activism at the University of Calgary in the Late 1960s and Early 1970s
    5. 11. Drop In, Hang Out, and Crash: Outreach Programs for Transient Youth and War Resisters in Edmonton
    6. 12. Solidarity on the Cricket Pitch: Confronting South African Apartheid in Edmonton
  8. Part IV: Countercultural and Environmental Radicalism
    1. Introduction
    2. 13. From Nuclear Disarmament to Raging Granny: A Recollection of Peace Activism and Environmental Advocacy in the 1960s and 1970s
    3. 14. The Mill Creek Park Movement and Citizen Activism in Edmonton, 1964–75
    4. 15. “A Lot of Heifer-Dust”: Alberta Maverick Marion Nicoll and Abstract Art
    5. 16. Land and Love in the Rockies: The Poetic Politics of Sid Marty and Headwaters
    6. 17. Death of a Delta
  9. Conclusion: Bucking Conservatism, Then and Now
  10. List of Contributors

PART II
Defying Heteropatriarchy

A black-and-white photograph shows Lillian Dick standing in front of an offensive Super S Drugs sign.

Lillian Dick objects to Super S Drugs sign, Calgary, March 1970. Courtesy of Calgary Herald Photograph Collection, Glenbow Archives, Calgary, NA-2864-5209.

The text underneath a gigantic, flashing “Drugs” neon sign reads, “Next to no wife, a good one is best”. Lillian Dick is holding two placards one below the other that read, “Next to no drug store an inoffensive drugstore is best.”

Calgary Police Chief Inspector Andy Little on Homosexuality, 1968

Speaking to the University of Calgary Psychology Club in October 1968, Calgary Police Chief Inspector Andy Little decried the move to liberalize the Canadian Criminal Code to permit same-sex relations between consenting adults.

“Any homosexual is a potential murderer,” he claimed. Questioned by club members, he added that “in order to gratify his alleged need, he will frequently assault a child.”

Nigel Roberts, “Public Blamed for Crime: An Interview,” The Gauntlet, 2 October 1968, 3.

Calgary Board of Education’s Survey on Sexual Activity, 1969

In 1969 the Calgary Board of Education asked students at the city’s Crescent Heights High School to give their opinions about a number of aspects of sexual activity. Question number 21 on the form asked: “Now that England no longer regards as criminal homosexuality among consenting adults in private, do you feel that their civilization will collapse on this account? Explain.”

Joanne Hatton, “Progressives and Traditionalists Battle for Control of Education,” in Alberta in the 20th Century: A Journalistic History of the Province, vol. 10, The Sixties Revolution and the Fall of Social Credit, ed. Paul Bunner (Edmonton: United Western Communications, 2002), 135.

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