national security as sexual regulation
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Kinsman, Gary
- Creator
- Gentile, Patrizia
- Publish Year
- 2009
- Shelfmark
- CAN 3 2010
- Thesaurus
- seksualiteit, discriminatie, lesbische vrouwen, homo's, queer, militaire beroepen, Canada, 1950-1959, 1960-1969, 20e eeuw
- 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 and enemies of the state. Based on official security documents and interviews with gays, lesbians, civil servants, and high-ranking officials, this book offers a personalized account of a national security campaign that violated people's civil rights and freedoms in an attempt to regulate their sexual practices. The authors disclose not only the acts of state repression that accompanied the Canadian war on queers but also forms of resistance that raise questions about just whose security was being protected and about national security as an ideological practice.