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Pearl M. Hart (? - 1975)
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Goes to Law School (Between Men~Between Women: Lesbian and Gay
Studies) by Ruthann Robson
Ruthann Robson's canny,
well-written essays on lesbian legal theory and pedagogy, rooted
in her experience as a lesbian professor at a progressive law
school, offer a sparkling application of poststructural analysis,
queer theory, and cautious, common-sense feminism to a wide range
of legal problems and possibilities. She begins by imagining
Sappho as a modern-day law student, with the hope of uncovering
Sapphic rather than Socratic methodologies in legal theory:
"How could [invoking Sappho] change the ways in which we
understand, practice, and apply law? What if we adopted the
Sapphic lyric as a mode of communication and understanding rather
than Socratic argumentation?"
Included are essays on lesbians and criminal
justice, same-sex marriage, child custody cases, and the role of
personal experience in postmodern theorizing. In her provocative
closing essay, "Lesbian Sex in a Law School Classroom,"
Robson describes the difficulties of teaching a course entitled
"Sexuality and the Law" to a diverse group of students,
some of whom object to the word "sex" appearing on their
law school transcript, while others cannot help but unburden their
private lives to her during her office hours. With its multitude
of stories and its playful ambivalence toward personal narrative,
even the theory-weary will find Sappho Goes to Law School
stimulating and unusual. --Regina Marler
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Gerber/Hart
Library was brought into existence in January, 1981 as a joint
project of the Gay Academic Union-Chicago Chapter, Gay Horizons,
and the Chicago Gay and Lesbian History Project. Spearheaded by
Gregory Sprague, who headed the History Project, the organization
achieved independent status on November 20, 1981 when it was
incorporated by the state of Illinois as a not-for-profit
corporation. Although now known as "Gerber/Hart
Library," the organization was first christened "The
Midwest Gay and Lesbian Archive and Library." In April, 1981,
to honor 1920's Chicago activist Henry Gerber and attorney Pearl
Hart, the organization changed its name to "The Henry
Gerber-Pearl M. Hart Library: The Midwest Lesbian & Gay
Resource Center."
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By Jim Kepner
Excerpt:
Too many writers have claimed that, before the
Daughters of Bilitis started (San Francisco 1955) the homophile
movement, as it was then known, was almost entirely white-male,
and the rare women participants were expected to make coffee or
keep minutes. Of course a few male chauvinists in the Mattachine
Society did suggest such duties, "now that we have some girls
here," but some Mattachine women, from early 1953 on, played
pivotal roles (the most outstanding being Marilyn "Boopsie"
Reiger, who took a leading conservative role in the pivotal 1953
Conventions, as well as the woman who headed the Oakland chapter,
and attorney Pearl Hart, a founder and long-time leader of Chicago
Mattachine...)
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From Chicago
Metro History Education Center (and Illinois Labor History
Society)
Excerpt:
Founded in Los Angeles in 1951, the Mattachine
Society strove to to educate homosexuals and heterosexuals about
homosexual culture and to unify homosexuals around the political
fight against oppressive laws of the time. Chicago’s chapter of
the Mattachine Society was established in the early 1950s and is
noted for putting together a vital handbook of gay and lesbian’
legal rights. Pearl Hart, a Chicago lawyer, was instrumental in
advising the Chicago chapter on this handbook. She was also one of
a handful of lawyers who would take on lesbian and gay rights
cases in the 1950s. Along with Henry Gerber, she is remembered and
honored today in the organizational name of the Gerber Hart Gay
and Lesbian Library...
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