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SUMMARY:Beyond the Cities of the Plain: Settler Sexuality and Gender on Victoria’s Goldfields
DESCRIPTION:Is ‘queer’ history urban history? The urban/rural divide has long characterised histories of sexuality and gender: defining cities as spaces of a vibrant queer subculture\, and the rural or regional as empty sites to be escaped. The expansion of pastoral and mining interests in nineteenth-century Victoria\, however\, made non-urban instances of sexual and gender transgression routinely visible. At times controversial\, sometimes exceptional\, often they were simply unremarkable. \nIn this year’s Weston Bate Lecture\, Jacobin Bosman presents a reimagining of how settler society understood\, experienced\, and expressed sexuality and gender through a case study of the Victorian goldfields (1851-1879). Focusing on moments in which the purportedly ‘unspeakable’ or ‘unknown’ were rendered publicly visible by courtrooms and newspapers\, this lecture discusses the multiple meanings made of same-sex desire and cross-gender expression involving settlers in rural\, regional and remote parts of the colony. In doing so\, it presents a new image of this time and area. One in which ‘the queer’ was as often a fundamental part of everyday experience\, as it was a threat to colonial advancement. \nDoors open 5.30pm | Lecture starts 6pm | Finish time 7.15pm \nBookings at https://www.sovereignhill.com.au/events/weston-bate-memorial-lecture/
URL:https://historymonth.org.au/event/beyond-the-cities-of-the-plain-settler-sexuality-and-gender-on-victorias-goldfields/
LOCATION:Sovereign Hill  Space and Time Theatre\, 425 Bradshaw St\, Golden Point\, VIC\, 3350\, Australia
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