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Author: Christabelle Sethna ,
Steve Hewitt ,
Steve Hewitt ,
Steve Hewitt
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press
ISBN: 9780773552821
ISBN 10: 0773552820
Pages: 318
Publication Date: 21 March 2018
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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The authors describe the history of RCMP's security service, highlight women's demand for the reform of restrictive abortion laws, and describe the role of an international women's conference advocating an end to the Vietnam War (which further increased the RCMP's spying activity). After reviewing the heavily censored RCMP files, the authors reflect on the ethical challenges encountered in researching the historical legacy of state surveillance. This volume is an important addition to gender and state security studies. Recommended. Choice Sethna and Hewitt are meticulous and rigorous scholars and Just Watch Us is a serious, methodical, and analytical approach to a complicated historical topic. Patrizia Gentile, Carleton University
Sethna and Hewitt are meticulous and rigorous scholars and Just Watch Us is a serious, methodical, and analytical approach to a complicated historical topic. Patrizia Gentile, Carleton University
Sethna and Hewitt are meticulous and rigorous scholars and Just Watch Us is a serious, methodical, and analytical approach to a complicated historical topic. Patrizia Gentile, Carleton University [The RCMP] records, obtained in regrettably-eviscerated form by the authors using the Access to Information and Privacy Act (ATIP), is the foundation for this illuminating book. They combine exceptional depth of knowledge about the Canadian women's movement and state surveillance of this country's progressive communities. The Ormsby Review The authors describe the history of RCMP's security service, highlight women's demand for the reform of restrictive abortion laws, and describe the role of an international women's conference advocating an end to the Vietnam War (which further increased the RCMP's spying activity). After reviewing the heavily censored RCMP files, the authors reflect on the ethical challenges encountered in researching the historical legacy of state surveillance. This volume is an important addition to gender and state security studies. Recommended. Choice Despite the fragmentary and deceptive nature of state-produced security files, Sethna and Hewitt skillfully navigate the evidentiary record and offer a thorough study about the political anxieties that perpetuated the unjust surveillance of the women's liberation movement in Canada... Institutionalized discrimination has a long and entrenched history in Western democratic nation-states, and Just Watch Us is another important reminder of the RCMP's complicated legacy in Canada. Sethna and Hewitt deserve credit for accessing declassified government files and unearthing records that will support future research in Canadian history, security and surveillance scholarship, and women and gender studies. Labour / Le Travail
Author Information
Christabelle Sethna is professor in the Institute of Feminist and Gender Studies at the University of Ottawa. Steve Hewitt is senior lecturer in the Department of History and the American and Canadian Studies Research Centre at the University of Birmingham.
