{"product_id":"the-canadian-war-on-queers-9780774816281","title":"The Canadian War on Queers","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Canadian War on Queers shows how the Canadian state used the ideology of national security to wage war on gays and lesbians.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKinsman 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 *\u003cbr\u003eThis 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 *\u003cbr\u003eAn important intervention into mainstream studies of Canadian historiography. -- Jack Hixson-Vulpe * Canadian Woman Studies, Vol. 29, No. 3 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface: National Security Wars Then and Now\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Queering National Security, the Cold War, and Canadian History\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 Queer History and Sociology from Below: Resisting National Security as an Ideological Practice\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 The Cold War against Queers: Social and Historical Contexts\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 The Social Relations of National Security: Spying and Interrogation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 The “Fruit Machine”: Attempting to Detect Queers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6 Queer Resistance and the Security Response\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7 The Campaign Continues in the 1970s: Security Risks and Lesbian Purges in the Military\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8 “Gay Political Activists” and “Radical Lesbians”: Organizing against the National Security State\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9 From Exclusion to Assimilation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10 Resisting the Expanding National Security State: From the Canadian War on Queers to the War on “Terror”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of British Columbia Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404918726999,"sku":"9780774816281","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780774816281.jpg?v=1730488052","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-canadian-war-on-queers-9780774816281","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}