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The Canadian War on Queers National Security as Sexual Regulation
Kinsman, Gary; Gentile, Patrizia Publisher: UBC Press, Vancouver, Canada Year Published: 2010 Pages: 584pp ISBN: 978-0-7748-1628-1 Resource Type: Book
From the 1950s to the late 1990s, agents of the Canadian state spied on, interrogated, and harassed gays and lesbians in a series of so-called national security campaigns. This book traces this history, revealing acts of state repression and forms of social resistance.
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List of Illustrations Preface: National Security Wars -- Then and Now Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations
1. Queering National Security, the Cold War, and Canadian History: Surveillance and Resistance 2. Queer History and Sociology from Below: Resisting National Security 3. The Cold War against Queers: Social and Historical Contexts 4. Spying and Interrogation: The Social Relations of National Security 5. The "Fruit Machine": Attempting to Detect Queers 6. Queer Resistance and the Security Response: Solidarity versus the RCMP 7. The Campaign Continues in the 1970s: Security Risks and Lesbian Purges in the Military 8. "Gay Political Activists" and "Radical Lesbians": Organizing against the National Security State 9. Sexual Policing and National Security: Sex Scandals, Olympic Clean-Ups, and Cross-Country Organizing 10. Continuing Exclusion: The Formation of CSIS and "Hard-Core Lesbians" 11. From Exclusion to Assimilation: National Security, the Charter, and Limited Inclusion 12. From the Canadian War on Queers to the War on Terror: Resisting the Expanding National Security State
Appendix: Index of Interviews Notes Bibliography Index
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