Gary Kinsman

The Canadian War on Queers

National Security as Sexual Regulation

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 target people who deviated from the so-called norm as threats to society and enemies of the state. Based on official security documents.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of British Columbia Press
• Seitenzahl: 584
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 885g
• ISBN-13: 9780774816281
• ISBN-10: 0774816287
• Artikelnr.: 29985146

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: National Security Wars Then and Now
1 Queering National Security, the Cold War, and Canadian History
2 Queer History and Sociology from Below: Resisting National Security as an
Ideological Practice
3 The Cold War against Queers: Social and Historical Contexts
4 The Social Relations of National Security: Spying and Interrogation
5 The "Fruit Machine": Attempting to Detect Queers
6 Queer Resistance and the Security Response
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 From Exclusion to Assimilation
10 Resisting the Expanding National Security State: From the Canadian War
on Queers to the War on "Terror"
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index