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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung The Canadian War on Queers shows how the Canadian state used the ideology of national security to wage war on gays and lesbians. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface: National Security Wars Then and Now1 Queering National Security, the Cold War, and Canadian History2 Queer History and Sociology from Below: Resisting National Security as an Ideological Practice3 The Cold War against Queers: Social and Historical Contexts4 The Social Relations of National Security: Spying and Interrogation5 The "Fruit Machine": Attempting to Detect Queers6 Queer Resistance and the Security Response7 The Campaign Continues in the 1970s: Security Risks and Lesbian Purges in the Military8 "Gay Political Activists" and "Radical Lesbians": Organizing against the National Security State9 From Exclusion to Assimilation10 Resisting the Expanding National Security State: From the Canadian War on Queers to the War on "Terror"AppendixNotesBibliographyIndex
