C’était du spectacle!: L’histoire des artistes transsexuelles à Montréal, 1955-1985 (Studies on the History of Quebec/Études d’histoire du Quebec) (French Edition)

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The 1960s and 1970s were decades of intense social change in Quebec. C’etait du spectacle! provides a historical context for the primary generation of transexuals who underwent sex reassignment surgery. Namaste explores working conditions within the cabarets, prostitution, the police abuse of transsexuals, the role of organized crime within the city’s nightlife, the regulation of obscene representations, and get right of entry to to health care. C’etait du spectacle! offers a rare glimpse of Montreal’s street culture by certainly one of its such a lot essential artistic communities. cabaret culture has never been seen from the viewpoint of the transsexuals and transvestite artists who made it so popular. Through oral histories and archival research, Viviane Namaste paints a candid portrait of fourteen male-to-female transsexual dancers, singers, magicians, and strippers in a in the back of-the-scenes have a look at the social and economic conditions wherein they lived and worked.”

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