Just Watch Us: Rcmp Surveillance of the Women's Liberation Movement in Cold War Canada

by Steve Hewitt and Christabelle Sethna

From the late 1960s to the mid-1980s, in the midst of the Cold War and second-wave feminism, the RCMP security service ? prompted by fears of left-wing and communist subversion ? monitored and infiltrated the women's liberation movement in Canada and Quebec. Just Watch Us investigates why and how this movement was targeted, weighing carefully the presumed threat its left-wing ties presented to the Canadian government against the defiant challenge...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773552820
• ISBN13: 9780773552821
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.1"