Contributions

  • Gentile, Patrizia, 1970- - Contributor

Publication

2010 - UBC Press, Vancouver, British Columbia

Language

English

Word Count

138,500 words, Guess

Page Count

554 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100774816279
  • ISBN-139780774816274
  • Library of Congress Control Number2009504556
  • OCLC Control Number424086445
  • Better World Books9780774816274
and 1 more

Classifications

  • DDC323.3/2640971
  • LCCHQ76.3.C2 K56 2010
  • LCCHQ76.3.C2K56 2010
and 1 more
  • LCCHQ76.3.C2 K54 2010

Description

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 targets as threats to society. Based on official security documents and interviews with gays, lesbians, civil servants, and high-ranking officials, this path-breaking book discloses acts of state repression and forms of resistance that raise questions about just whose national security was being protected. Passionate and personalized, this account of how the state used the ideology of national security to wage war on its own people offers ways of understanding, and resisting, contemporary conflicts such as the "war on terror."--P. [iv] of cover.

Subjects

Topics

DroitDroitsHistoryHistoireGay rightsHomosexuelsHomosexualité

Places

Series Statement

  • Sexuality studies series

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