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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.
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.
We Still Demand! recovers the vibrant histories of sex and gender
activism across Canada from the 1970s to the present. Highlighting
queer, trans, sex-worker, and feminist struggles, this activist
history focuses on remembering these struggles and on rethinking
the boundaries of sex and gender activism and scholarship. By
recovering the history of activism and outlining contemporary
challenges, We Still Demand! provides a vital rewriting of the
history of sex and gender activism in Canada that will enlighten
current struggles and activate new forms of resistance.
From the 1950s to the late 1990s, agents of the state spied on,
interrogated, and harassed gays and lesbians in Canada, employing
social ideologies and other practices to construct their targets as
threats to society. Based on official security documents and
interviews with gays, lesbians, civil servants, and high-ranking
officials, this path-breaking book discloses acts of state
repression and forms of resistance that raise questions about just
whose national security was being protected. Passionate and
personalized, this account of how the state used the ideology of
national security to wage war on its own people offers ways of
understanding, and resisting, contemporary conflicts such as the
“war on terror.”
We Still Demand! recovers the vibrant histories of sex and gender
activism across Canada from the 1970s to the present. Highlighting
queer, trans, sex-worker, and feminist struggles, this activist
history focuses on remembering these struggles and on rethinking
the boundaries of sex and gender activism and scholarship. By
recovering the history of activism and outlining contemporary
challenges, We Still Demand! provides a vital rewriting of the
history of sex and gender activism in Canada that will enlighten
current struggles and activate new forms of resistance.
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.
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