“Not a Gift from Above: The Mythology of Homosexual Law Reform and the Making of Neoliberal Queer Histories” by Gary Kinsman now out in No Place for the State.


In Christopher Dummit and Christabelle Sethna eds, No Place for the State, The Origins and Legacies of the 1969 Omnibus Bill

UBC Press, 2020

https://www.ubcpress.ca/no-place-for-the-state

Introduction / Christopher Dummitt and Christabelle Sethna

Part 1: Regulation, Rupture, and Continuity

1 Because It’s 1969: The Omnibus Bill and the New Morality of the Self / Christopher Dummitt

2 “Is Abortion Ever Right?”: The United Church of Canada and the Debate over Abortion Law Reform, 1960–1980 / Katrina Ackerman, Bruce Douville, and Shannon Stettner

3 Not a Gift from Above: The Mythology of Homosexual Law Reform and the Making of Neoliberal Queer Histories / Gary Kinsman

Part 2: Activist Responses

4 “The State’s Key to the Bedroom Door”: Queer Perspectives on Pierre Elliot Trudeau’s “Just Society” in an Era of Bathhouse Raids / Tom Hooper

5 Law Reform, Liberal Democracies, and the Transnational History of Gay Liberation / Scott deGroot

6 Seeing Red: The Toronto Women’s Caucus, the RCMP Security Service, and the Campaign to Repeal the 1969 Abortion Law / Christabelle Sethna and Steve Hewitt

Part 3: Beyond the Omnibus Bill

7 Insulated from the Law: Married Women, the Pill, and the “Public Good” / Jessica Haynes

8 “Something More”: The State’s Place in the Bedrooms of Lesbian Nation / Karen Pearlston

9 Life Interrupted: The Biopolitics of Abortion and Attempted Suicide in Canada in the Late Sixties and Early Seventies / Isabelle Perrault

Part 4: Back to the Future

10 The Law (and) Unintended Consequences: Adoption and the Omnibus Bill of 1969 / Lori Chambers

11 Is That Really Necessary? The Regulation of Abortion in Canada and the Framework of Medical Necessity / Rachael Johnstone

Index