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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Gary Kinsman; Patrizia Gentile |
ISBN: | 9780774816274 0774816279 |
OCLC Number: | 652626264 |
Description: | xxiii, 554 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Queering national security, the cold war, and Canadian history : surveillance and resistance -- Queer history and sociology from below : resisting national security -- The cold war against queers : social and historical contexts -- Spying and interrogation : the social relations of national security -- The "Fruit Machine" : attempting to detect queers -- Queer resistance and the security response : solidarity versus the RCMP -- The campaign continues in the 1970s : security risks and lesbian purges in the military -- "Gay political activists" and "radical lesbians" : organizing against the national security state -- Sexual policing and national security : sex scandals, Olympic clean-ups, and cross-country organizing -- Continuing exclusion : the formation of CSIS and "hard-core lesbians" -- From exclusion to assimilation : national security, the Charter, and limited inclusion -- From the Canadian war on queers to the war on terror : resisting the expanding national security state. |
Series Title: | Sexuality studies series. |
Responsibility: | Gary Kinsman and Patrizia Gentile. |
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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 * Read more...

