The Canadian War on Queers: National Security as Sexual Regulation

Kinsman, Gary; Gentile, Patrizia

ISBN 10: 0774816287 / ISBN 13: 9780774816281

Published by UBC Press, 2010

About this Item

The Canadian War on Queers: National Security as Sexual Regulation. UBC Press, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 2010. Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Inscribed by author on half-title page. Tiny crumple on two pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Canadian War on Queers: National Security as Sexual Regulation
• Publisher: UBC Press
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0774816287
• ISBN 13: 9780774816281
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)

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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 queer liberation, anti-oppression, and anti-capitalist activist and the co-author of The Canadian War on Queers: National Security as Sexual Regulation.