Contesting Bodies And Nation In Canadian History
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Contesting Bodies and Nation in Canadian History
Author | : Patrizia Gentile,Jane Nicholas |
Publsiher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2013-12-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781442663169 |
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From fur coats to nude paintings, and from sports to beauty contests, the body has been central to the literal and figurative fashioning of ourselves as individuals and as a nation. In this first collection on the history of the body in Canada, an interdisciplinary group of scholars explores the multiple ways the body has served as a site of contestation in Canadian history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Showcasing a variety of methodological approaches, Contesting Bodies and Nation in Canadian History includes essays on many themes that engage with the larger historical relationship between the body and nation: medicine and health, fashion and consumer culture, citizenship and work, and more. The contributors reflect on the intersections of bodies with the concept of nationhood, as well as how understandings of the body are historically contingent. The volume is capped off with a critical introductory chapter by the editors on the history of bodies and the development of the body as a category of analysis.
Contesting Bodies and Nation in Canadian History
Author | : Patrizia Gentile,Jane Nicholas |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 447 |
Release | : 2014-05-10 |
Genre | : HEALTH & FITNESS |
ISBN | : 1442663154 |
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In this first collection on the history of the body in Canada, an interdisciplinary group of scholars explores the multiple ways the body has served as a site of contestation in Canadian history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Queen of the Maple Leaf
Author | : Patrizia Gentile |
Publsiher | : UBC Press |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2020-11-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780774864152 |
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As modern versions of the settler nation took root in twentieth-century Canada, beauty emerged as a business. Queen of the Maple Leaf deftly uncovers the codes of femininity, class, sexuality, and race that beauty pageants exemplified, whether they took place on local or national stages. A union-organized pageant such as Queen of the Dressmakers, for example, might uplift working-class women, but immigrant women need not apply. Patrizia Gentile demonstrates how beauty contests connected female bodies to white, wholesome, respectable, middle-class femininity, locating their longevity squarely within their capacity to reassert the white heteropatriarchy at the heart of settler societies.
Queen of the Maple Leaf
Author | : Patrizia Gentile |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2021-05-15 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 0774864133 |
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As modern versions of the settler nation took root in twentieth-century Canada, beauty became a business. But beauty pageants were more than just frivolous spectacles. Queen of the Maple Leaf deftly uncovers how colonial power operated within the pageant circuit. In this astute critical investigation, Patrizia Gentile examines the interplay between local or community-based pageants and more prestigious provincial or national ones. Contests such as Miss War Worker, Miss Black Ontario, and Miss Civil Service often functioned as stepping stones to competitions such as Miss Canada. At all levels, pageants exemplified codes of femininity, class, sexuality, and race that shaped the narratives of the settler nation. A union-organized pageant such as Queen of the Dressmakers, for example, might uplift working-class women but immigrant women need not apply. Not unlike sports leagues linked from minor to major, pageants from local to national formed a network that entrenched white settler nationalism in the context of the beauty industrial complex. Queen of the Maple Leaf demonstrates that these contests are designed to connect female bodies to white, middle-class, respectable femininity and wholesomeness, and that their longevity lies squarely in their capacity to reassert the white heteropatriarchy at the heart of settler societies. Students, scholars, and researchers will want to add this significant contribution to gender and sexuality studies to their bookshelves, particularly for its insights into settler femininity.
Contesting Canadian Citizenship
Author | : Dorothy Chunn,Robert Menzies,Robert Adamoski |
Publsiher | : Peterborough, Ont. : Broadview Press |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2002-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : UOM:39015052300038 |
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Over the past 15 years, the citizenship debate in political and social theory has undergone an extraordinary renaissance. To date, much of the writing on citizenship, within and beyond Canada, has been oriented toward the development of theory, or has concentrated on contemporary issues and examples. This collection of essays adopts a different approach by contextualizing and historicizing the citizenship debate, through studies of various aspects of the rise of social citizenship in Canada. Focusing on the formative years from the late 19th through mid-20th century, contributors examine how emerging discourse and practices in diverse areas of Canadian social life created a widely engaged, but often deeply contested, vision of the new Canadian citizen. The original essays examine key developments in the fields of welfare, justice, health, childhood, family, immigration, education, labour, media, popular culture and recreation, highlighting the contradictory nature of Canadian citizenship. The implications of these projects for the daily lives of Canadians, their identities, and the forms of resistance that they mounted, are central themes. Contributing authors situate their historical accounts in both public and private domains, their analyses emphasizing the mutual permeability of state and civil(ian) life. These diverse investigations reveal that while Canadian citizenship conveys crucial images of identity, security, and participatory democracy within the ongoing project of nation building, it is also interlaced with the projects of a hierarchical social structure and exclusionary political order. This collection explores the origins and evolution of Canadian citizenship in historical context. It also introduces the more general dilemmas and debates in social history and political theory that inevitably inform these inquiries.
A Concise History of Canada
Author | : Margaret Conrad |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 557 |
Release | : 2022-08-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781108498463 |
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A new edition of Margaret Conrad's lucid account of the diverse, complex, and often contested nation-state of Canada.
Whose National Security
Author | : Gary Kinsman,Dieter K. Buse,Mercedes Steedman |
Publsiher | : Between the Lines |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2000-10-01 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9781926662749 |
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Would you believe that RCMP operatives used to spy on Tupperware parties? In the 1950s and ’60s they did. They also monitored high school students, gays and lesbians, trade unionists, left-wing political groups, feminists, consumer’s associations, Black activists, First Nations people, and Quebec sovereigntists. The establishment of a tenacious Canadian security state came as no accident. On the contrary, the highest levels of government and the police, along with non-governmental interests and institutions, were involved in a concerted campaign. The security state grouped ordinary Canadians into dozens of political stereotypes and labelled them as threats. Whose National Security? probes the security state’s ideologies and hidden agendas, and sheds light on threats to democracy that persist to the present day. The contributors’ varied approaches open up avenues for reconceptualizing the nature of spying.
Canadian Carnival Freaks and the Extraordinary Body 1900 1970s
Author | : Jane Nicholas |
Publsiher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2018-01-01 |
Genre | : Carnivals |
ISBN | : 9781487522087 |
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In Canadian Carnival Freaks and the Extraordinary Body, 1900-1970s, Nicholas offers a sophisticated analysis of the place of the freak show in twentieth-century culture