A Queer Look at a Changing Vacation Landscape: Respectability and Resistance

Summary

Using a queer lens, this research looks at respectability and resistance at a resort landscape on Lake George in New York State’s Adirondack Mountains. In the late nineteenth century, this vacation resort served a mixed gender, middle-class clientele; beginning in the very early twentieth century, it has served a mixed-class, all female clientele. Respectability played a crucial role in how people navigated both of these landscapes. The flip side of respectability is resistance. Looking at artifact assemblages representing clothing, medicine, and foodways through a queer lens provides a glimpse of how respectability and resistance played out on the shores of Lake George in the 1870s-1890s and in the 1910s-1920s.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 83rd Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (2018)

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Abstract Id(s): 21219