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History Post-confederation (1867-)

No Place for the State

The Origins and Legacies of the 1969 Omnibus Bill

edited by Christopher Dummitt & Christabelle Sethna

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Apr 2020
Category
Post-Confederation (1867-), LGBTQ+, General, Social Policy, Civil Rights
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774862455
    Publish Date
    Apr 2020
    List Price
    $125.00
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780774862424
    Publish Date
    Apr 2020
    List Price
    $89.95
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780774862431
    Publish Date
    Oct 2020
    List Price
    $32.95

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“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.

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