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Newsletter 31 News from National Committees

CANADA

NEW BOOKS:
Gary Kinsman, Dieter K. Buse and Mercedes Steedman (eds.) Whose National Security? Canadian State Surveillance and the Creation of Enemies (Toronto: Between the Lines, 2000). "Would you believe that Royal Canadian Mounted Police security operatives once spied on tea and Tupperware parties? During the 1950s and 1960s they did. They also monitered high school students, gays and lesbians, trade unionists, left-wing political groups, feminists, consumer's associations, Black activists, First Nations people and Quebec sovereignists. Whose National Security? opens up avenues for reconceptualizing the nature of spying. More than twenty contributors probe the ideologies behind a security threat, and shed light on the threats to democracy that surveillance poses."
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Catherine Cavanaugh and Randi. R. Warne (eds.) Telling Tales: Essays in Western Women's History. (Vancouver, UBC Press, 2000).
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Franca Iacovetta, Roberto Perin Angelo Principe (eds) Enemies Within: Italian Internees in Canada and Beyond. (Toronto: Uof T Press, 2000) See especially Michelle McBride, "The Curious Case of Female Internees and the Interdepartmental Committee on Internment During World War Two."
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Shirley Tillotson, The Public at Play: Gender and the Politics of Recreation in Post-War Ontario (Toronto: U of T Press, 2000).
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Veronica Strong-Boag and Carole Gerson, Paddling Her Own Canoe: The Times and Texts of E. Pauline Johnson (Toronto: U of T Press, 2000).
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Stephen Heathorn, For Home, Country and Race: Constructing Gender, Class and Englishness in the Elementary School, 1880-1914 (Toronto: U of T Press, 2000).
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Valerie Korinek, Roughing it in Suburbia: Chatelaine Magazine and its Readers (Toronto: U of T Press, 2000).

NEW JOURNAL ARTICLES:
Christina Simmons "Modern Marriage for African Americans, 1920-1940," Canadian Review of American Studies, forthcoming.
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"Whose Canada Is It? Immigrant Women, Women of Colour and Feminist Critiques of Multiculturalism," Atlantis: A Women's Studies Journal, Vol 24:2, Spring, 2000.
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Special Issue on Women's History, Atlantis: A Women's Studies Journal, Fall 2000.

-compiled by Karen Dubinsky