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We Still Demand! recovers the vibrant histories of sex and gender
activism across Canada from the 1970s to the present. Highlighting
queer, trans, sex-worker, and feminist struggles, this activist
history focuses on remembering these struggles and on rethinking
the boundaries of sex and gender activism and scholarship. By
recovering the history of activism and outlining contemporary
challenges, We Still Demand! provides a vital rewriting of the
history of sex and gender activism in Canada that will enlighten
current struggles and activate new forms of resistance.
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.”
We Still Demand! recovers the vibrant histories of sex and gender
activism across Canada from the 1970s to the present. Highlighting
queer, trans, sex-worker, and feminist struggles, this activist
history focuses on remembering these struggles and on rethinking
the boundaries of sex and gender activism and scholarship. By
recovering the history of activism and outlining contemporary
challenges, We Still Demand! provides a vital rewriting of the
history of sex and gender activism in Canada that will enlighten
current struggles and activate new forms of resistance.
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