The Canadian war on queers : national security as sexual regulation

Kinsman, Gary William. (Author). Gentile, Patrizia, 1970- (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780774816281 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9780774816274 (hc.)
ISBN: 0774816287
ISBN: 0774816279
Physical Description: xxiii, 554 p. : ill ; 24 cm.
print
Publisher: Vancouver : UBC Press, c2010.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [523]-545) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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.