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Author:   Patrizia Gentile ,  Gary Kinsman ,  L. Pauline Rankin
Publisher:   University of British Columbia Press
Imprint:   University of British Columbia Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.600kg
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9780774833349

ISBN 10:   0774833343
Pages:   324
Publication Date:   15 December 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction / Patrizia Gentile, Gary Kinsman, and L. Pauline Rankin Part 1: Histories of Resistance and Activism 1 Liberating Marriage: Gay Liberation and Same-Sex Marriage in Early 1970s Canada / Elise Chenier 2 “Seducing the Unions”: Organized Labour and Strategies for Gay Liberation in Toronto in the 1970s / Mathieu Brûlé 3 “À bas la répression contre les homosexuels!” Resistance and Surveillance of Queers in Montreal, 1971-76 / Patrizia Gentile 4 Fire, Passion, and Politics: The Creation of Blockorama as Black Queer Diasporic Space in the Toronto Pride Festivities / Beverly Bain 5 The Emergence of the Toronto Dyke March / Allison Burgess 6 Rupert Raj, Transmen, and Sexuality: The Politics of Transnormativity in Metamorphosis Magazine during the 1980s / Nicholas Matte 7 Queer Resistance and Regulation in the 1970s: From Liberation to Rights / Gary Kinsman Part 2: The Politics and Power of Resistance 8 “A History of That Which Was Never Supposed to Be Possible”: Rethinking Gender Passing in History / Fabien Rose 9 “Your Cuntry Needs You”: The Politics of Early 1990s Canadian S/M Dyke Porn / Andrea Zanin 10 Safe Sex Work and the City: Canadian Sex Work Activists Re-Imagine Real/Virtual Cityscapes / Shawna Ferris 11 “Collateral Damage”: Anti-Trafficking Campaigns, Border Security, and Sex Workers’ Rights Struggles in Canada / Annalee Lepp 12 Nationalism, Sexuality, and the Politics of Anti-Citizenship / Cynthia Wright 13 Trans-ing the Canadian Passport: On the Biopolitical Storying of Race, Gender, and Borders / Bobby Noble Selected Bibliography Index

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This collection is a must-read for queer and sexuality theorists and historians alike. -- Natalie Adamyk, University of Toronto * Labour/Le travail, Vol. 82 *

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Patrizia Gentile is an associate professor of human rights and sexuality studies at the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies at Carleton University in Ottawa. She co-authored The Canadian War on Queers: National Security as Sexual Regulation and co-edited Contesting Bodies and Nation in Canadian History. Gary Kinsman is an activist and a professor emeritus in sociology at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario. He authored The Regulation of Desire: Homo and Hetero Sexualities, co-authored The Canadian War on Queers: National Security as Sexual Regulation, and was editor of Whose National Security? and Sociology for Changing the World. L. Pauline Rankin is a professor in the School of Canadian Studies and associate vice-president (Research and International) at Carleton University. She is co-author of Politics As If Women Mattered. Contributors: Beverly Bain, Mathieu Brûlé, Allison Burgess, Elise Chenier, Shawna Ferris, Patrizia Gentile, Gary Kinsman, Annalee Lepp, Nicholas Matte, Bobby Noble, Fabien Rose, Cynthia Wright, Andrea Zanin

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