{"product_id":"9780774816281","title":"The Canadian War on Queers: National Security as Sexual Regulation","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReconstructed from official security regime documents released through the Access to Information Act and interviews with gays, lesbians, civil servants, and high-ranking officials, \u003ci\u003eThe Canadian War on Queers\u003c\/i\u003e offers a passionate, personalized account of a national security campaign that violated people's civil rights and freedoms in an attempt to regulate their sexual practices. Gary Kinsman and Patrizia Gentile 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis path-breaking account of how the state used national security to wage war on its own people offers ways of understanding, and resisting, contemporary ideological conflicts such as the \"war on terror.\" It is required reading for students, scholars, and social activists in lesbian, gay, and queer studies or anyone interested in the issues of national security, state repression, and human rights.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of British Columbia Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47020639682800,"sku":"9780774816281","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780774816281_p0.jpg?v=1763658469","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780774816281","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}