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.

List of contents

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

About the author

Patrizia Gentile

Product details

• Authors: Patrizia Gentile
• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2022
• EAN: 9780774864138
• ISBN: 978-0-7748-6413-8
• No. of pages: 292
• Dimensions: 228 mm x 152 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 434 g
• Illustrations: 12 b&w photos
• Series: Sexuality Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research