Canadian War on Queers

National Security As Sexual Regulation

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

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From the 1950s to the late 1990s, agents of the state spied on, interrogated, and harassed gays and lesbians in Canada, employing social ideologies and other practices to construct their targets as threats to society and enemies of the state.In this path-breaking book, Gary Kinsman and Patrizia Gentile use official security documents and interviews with gays, lesbians, civil servants, and high-ranking officials to disclose not only the acts of state repression that accompanied the Canadian war on queers but also forms of resistance that raised questions about just whose national security was being protected and about national security as an ideological practice. This passionate, personalized account of how the state used the ideology of national security to wage war on its own people offers ways of understanding, and resisting, contemporary conflicts such as the so-called "war on terror."

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Utgivningsdatum2010-03-01
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt880 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieSexuality Studies
Antal sidor584
FörlagUniversity of British Columbia Press
ISBN9780774816281

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Preface: National Security Wars Then and Now1 Queering National Security, the Cold War, and Canadian History2 Queer History and Sociology from Below: Resisting National Security as an Ideological Practice3 The Cold War against Queers: Social and Historical Contexts4 The Social Relations of National Security: Spying and Interrogation5 The "Fruit Machine": Attempting to Detect Queers6 Queer Resistance and the Security Response7 The Campaign Continues in the 1970s: Security Risks and Lesbian Purges in the Military8 "Gay Political Activists" and "Radical Lesbians": Organizing against the National Security State9 From Exclusion to Assimilation10 Resisting the Expanding National Security State: From the Canadian War on Queers to the War on "Terror"AppendixNotesBibliographyIndex

Kinsman and Gentile have taken on an ambitious project both with respect to their topic as well as the scope of more than four decades worth of material. This is an incredibly important piece of work and will be appreciated by those who have a historical interest in national security campaigns and queer history, as well as those who want a history on which to base contemporary resistance to the security campaigns that are still being mounted against many marginalized people today. (TOPIA, Spring 2011) This account of the surveillance of Canadian lesbians and gays in the name of national security is impressive, at once bone-chilling and inspiring. - David Rayside (Left History, 14.2) An important intervention into mainstream studies of Canadian historiography. - Jack Hixson-Vulpe (Canadian Woman Studies, Vol. 29, No. 3)