History Post-confederation (1867-)
No Place for the State
The Origins and Legacies of the 1969 Omnibus Bill
- Publisher
- UBC Press
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2020
- Category
- Post-Confederation (1867-), LGBTQ+, General, Social Policy, Civil Rights
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780774862455
- Publish Date
- Apr 2020
- List Price
- $125.00
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780774862424
- Publish Date
- Apr 2020
- List Price
- $89.95
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780774862431
- Publish Date
- Oct 2020
- List Price
- $32.95
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Description
“There’s no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation,” Pierre Elliott Trudeau told reporters. He was making the case for the most controversial of his proposed reforms to the Criminal Code, those concerning homosexuality, birth control, and abortion. In No Place for the State, contributors offer complex and often contrasting perspectives as they assess how the 1969 Omnibus Bill helped shape sexual and moral politics in Canada. Fifty years later, the origins and legacies of the bill are equivocal and the state still seems interested in sexual regulation. This incisive study explains why that matters.
About the authors
Christopher Dummitt is associate professor of history in the School for the Study of Canada at Trent University.
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Christabelle Sethna is a professor in the University of Ottawa's Institute of Feminist and Gender Studies. She is the coauthor of Just Watch Us: RCMP Surveillance of the Women's Liberation Movement in Cold War Canada and a coeditor of Animal Metropolis: Histories of Human-Animal Relations in Urban Canada.