Queen of the Maple Leaf - Beauty Contests and Settler Femininity (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	University of British Columbia Press
Country of origin:	Canada
Series:	Sexuality Studies
Release date:	December 2020
First published:	2020
Authors:	Patrizia Gentile
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	292
ISBN-13:	978-0-7748-6412-1
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > General
LSN:	0-7748-6412-5
Barcode:	9780774864121

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