London, UK Launch: Just Watch Us

University College London - Institute of the Americas, 51 Gordon Square, London
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Join authors Christabelle Sethna and Steve Hewitt for the launch of their new book Just Watch Us: RCMP Surveillance of the Women's Liberation Movement in Cold War Canada. The event will take place at the University College London - Institute of the Americas on May 10, 2018.

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 its campaign for gender equality posed to Canadian society.

Christabelle Sethna is professor in the Institute of Feminist and Gender Studies at the University of Ottawa.

Steve Hewitt is senior lecturer in the Department of History and the American and Canadian Studies Research Centre at the University of Birmingham.