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Book SynopsisThe Canadian War on Queers shows how the Canadian state used the ideology of national security to wage war on gays and lesbians.
Trade ReviewKinsman and Gentile have taken on an ambitious project both with respect to their topic as well as the scope of more than four decades worth of material. This is an incredibly important piece of work and will be appreciated by those who have a historical interest in national security campaigns and queer history, as well as those who want a history on which to base contemporary resistance to the security campaigns that are still being mounted against many marginalized people today. * TOPIA, Spring 2011 *
This account of the surveillance of Canadian lesbians and gays in the name of national security is impressive, at once bone-chilling and inspiring. -- David Rayside * Left History, 14.2 *
An important intervention into mainstream studies of Canadian historiography. -- Jack Hixson-Vulpe * Canadian Woman Studies, Vol. 29, No. 3 *
Table of ContentsPreface: 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
