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Queen of the Maple Leaf - Beauty Contests and Settler Femininity (Paperback)
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Queen of the Maple Leaf - Beauty Contests and Settler Femininity (Paperback)
Series: Sexuality Studies
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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.
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