Queen of the Maple Leaf - Beauty Contests and Settler Femininity

Queen of the Maple Leaf reveals the role of beauty pageants in entrenching settler femininity and white heteropatriarchy at the heart of twentieth-century Canada.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1 Beauty Queens and (White) Settler Nationalism
2 Miss Canada and Gendering Whiteness
3 Labour of Beauty
4 Contesting Indigenous, Immigrant, and Black Bodies
5 Miss Canada, Commercialization, and Settler Anxiety
Conclusion
Notes; Bibliography; Index

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Patrizia Gentile is an associate professor in the Human Rights and Social Justice program and the Institute of Women's and Gender Studies at Carleton University. She is co-author with Gary Kinsman of The Canadian War on Queers: National Security as Sexual Regulation; co-editor with Jane Nicholas of Contesting Bodies and Nation in Canadian History; and co-editor with Gary Kinsman and L. Pauline Rankin of We Still Demand! Redefining Resistance in Sex and Gender Struggles.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Patrizia Gentile
• Verlag: University of British Columbia Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 28.02.2022
• EAN: 9780774864138
• ISBN: 978-0-7748-6413-8
• Seiten: 292
• Abmessung: 228 mm x 152 mm x 21 mm
• Gewicht: 434 g
• Illustration: 12 b&w photos
• Serie: Sexuality Studies
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Pädagogik > Sozialpädagogik, Soziale Arbeit; Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Sozialstrukturforschung