Ladies Not So Free

Feminist Conversations on Caribbean Life

A young woman was recently refused free entry at a Trinidad and Tobago nightclub because she was “dressed like a man,” according to the person working the door, and therefore did not meet the criteria of hyperfeminine gender presentation required for “ladies free”.

Nightclubs that advertise “ladies free” are actually using women as part of the experience they are selling to (heterosexual) men whom they perceive as their legitimate customers.  This is the reason men are expected to pay and “ladies” are admitted “free”. It is neither an act of feminist benevolence nor discrimination against men that club owners have such policies.  Such policies aid in heterosexualizing public spaces and reinforcing the notion that ALL women should be sexually available to men. These clubs with their dress codes, including the requirement that women wear heels, seek to reinforce a heterosexualised femininity, regulating gender and sexuality and often discriminating based on class, colour and…

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Description: http://bitly.com/1QDYobo | [Xavier Martinez (forefront, facing camera) and fellow art students at Mark Hopkins Institute of Art in San Francisco, Calif., ca. 1898] | Repository: California Historical Society Collection: Photographs from Isabel Porter Collins collection Photographer: Collins, Isabel Porter, 1875-1954 Date: circa 1895-1906 Call number: MSP 422 Digital object number: MSP 422.001.jpg Preferred citation: [Xavier Martinez (forefront, facing camera) and fellow art stude…
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[Xavier Martinez (forefront, facing camera) and fellow art students at Mark Hopkins Institute of Art in San Francisco, Calif., ca. 1898] by California Historical Society Digital Collection

Repository: California Historical Society

Collection: Photographs from Isabel Porter Collins collection

Photographer: Collins, Isabel Porter, 1875-1954

Date: circa 1895-1906

Call number: MSP 422

Digital object number: MSP 422.001.jpg

Preferred citation: [Xavier Martinez (forefront, facing camera) and fellow art students at Mark Hopkins Institute of Art in San Francisco, Calif., ca. 1898], Photographs from Isabel Porter Collins collection, MSP 422, courtesy, California Historical Society, MSP 422.001.jpg

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Certificate of residence for Lem Shay, laundryman, age 35 years, of San Francisco by California Historical Society Digital Collection

Repository: California Historical Society

Digital object ID: MS 3642.017.jpg

Call number: MS 3642

Collection: Certificates of residence for Chinese laborers, 1894-1897

Date: 1897 February 12

Preferred citation: Certificate of residence for Lem Shay, Certificates of residence for Chinese laborers, MS 3642, courtesy, California Historical Society, MS 3642.017.jpg.

Subjects:
California–Emigration and immigration–History–19th century.
Chinese Americans–California–History–19th century.
Chinese–California–History–19th century.
Identification cards.

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Description: http://bitly.com/1QAjgR6 | [Soledad Salas] | Repository: California Historical Society Photographer: C.A. Marston Date: circa 1870 Format: Carte de visite Digital object ID: CHS2014.1495.jpg Preferred citation: [Soledad Salas], courtesy, California Historical Society, CHS2014.1495.jpg.
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Description: http://bitly.com/1QAjeIT | Portrait of Teresa Salas | Repository: California Historical Society Photographer: Sewell’s Art Gallery, Sonora, Cal. Date: circa 1872 Format: Carte de visite Digital object ID: CHS2010.373.jpg Preferred citation: Portrait of Teresa Salas, courtesy, California Historical Society, CHS2010.373.jpg.
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[Group portrait of men on horseback, Rancho Santa Anita] by California Historical Society Digital Collection

Repository: California Historical Society

Collection: Photographs of Rancho Santa Anita

Date: circa 1890

Call number: PC 008

Digital object ID: PC008.019.jpg

Preferred citation: [Group portrait of men on horseback, Rancho Santa Anita], Photographs of Rancho Santa Anita, PC 008, courtesy, California Historical Society, PC008.019.jpg.

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Committee of Vigilance. by California Historical Society Digital Collection

Repository: California Historical Society

Creator: San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1851.

Date: 1851

Publication Note: [San Francisco] : Lith. by Alex Zakreski & Co., [1851?]

Physical Description: 1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 27 x 32 cm.

General Note: A blank certificate of membership for the Committee of Vigilance of the City of San Francisco, organized 9th June, 1851.

Call Number: Vault B-040

Digital object ID: Vault_B-040.jpg

Preferred Citation: Committee of Vigilance, Vault B-040, courtesy, California Historical Society, Vault_B-040.jpg.

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Menu, Schwab’s Pharmacy, Los Angeles [open] by California Historical Society Digital Collection

Repository: California Historical Society

Digital object ID: CHS2014.1468 [b]

Call number: MENU COL

Collection: California menu collection

Date: circa 1955

Preferred citation: Menu, Schwab’s Pharmacy, Los Angeles [open], California menu collection, courtesy, California Historical Society, CHS2014.1468 [b].jpg.

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