The Canadian War on Queers; National Security as Sexual Regulation

Kinsman, Gary; Gentile, Patrizia

ISBN 10: 0774816287 / ISBN 13: 9780774816281

Published by UBC Press 978-0-7748-1628-1, Vancouver Toronto

[978-0-7748-1628-1] 2010. (Mass market paperback) Very good. xxiii, 554pp. 8vo. In the 1950s and throught to the late 1990s, agents of the state spied on, interrogated, and harassed gays and lesbians in Canada. Social ideologies and other practices were used to present their targets as threats to society and enemies of the state. Corners bumped at lower edge. Internally clean and bright. Seller Inventory # 134629

Synopsis:

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. Based on official security documents and interviews with gays, lesbians, civil servants, and high-ranking officials, this path-breaking book discloses acts of state repression and forms of resistance that raise questions about just whose national security was being protected. Passionate and personalized, this 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 “war on terror.”

About the Author: Gary Kinsman is a professor in the Sociology Department at Laurentian University, Sudbury. Patrizia Gentile is an assistant professor in the Pauline Jewett Institute of Women's and Gender Studies at Carleton University.

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Canadian War on Queers; National ...
Publisher: UBC Press 978-0-7748-1628-1, Vancouver Toronto
Binding: Soft cover