Patrizia Gentile, Jane Nicholas

Contesting Bodies and Nation in Canadian History

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9781442613874
• ISBN-10: 1442613874
• Artikelnr.: 36957888

Autorenporträt

Patrizia Gentile is an associate professor in the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies at Carleton University.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Abbreviations
List of Figures
Acknowledgements 
Introduction: Contesting Bodies, Nation, and Canadian History - Jane
Nicholas (Lakehead University) and Patrizia Gentile (Carleton University)
Part I:  Contested Meaning(s) of Bodies and Nations
Exploring the Writing of the History of the Body
1. Epiphany in the Archives - Kathryn Harvey
2. Following the North Star: Black Canadians, I.Q. Testing and Biopolitics
in the Work of H.A. Tanser, 1939-2008 - Barrington Walker (Queen’s
University)
Defining ‘Canadian’ Bodies: Race and Colonialism
3. Embodying Nation: Indigenous Sports in Victorian Montreal, 1860-1885 -
Gillian Poulter  (Acadia University)
4. The Boer War, Masculinity, and Citizenship in Canada, 1899-1907 - Amy
Shaw (University of Lethbridge)
Part II:  (Re)fashioning the Body
Fashion, Clothing, and Bodies
5. Packing and Unpacking: Newcomer and Aboriginal Women Negotiate Fashion
in Colonial Encounters during the Twentieth-Century - Myra Rutherdale (York
University)
6. The Domesticated Body and the Industrialized Imitation Fur Coat in
Canada, 1919-1939 - George Colpitts (University of Calgary)
Contesting Representations of the Body/Sexuality
7. An Excess of Prudery? Lilias Torrance Newton’s Nude and the Censorship
of Interwar Canadian Painting - Pandora Syperek (University College London)
8. The National Ballet of Canada’s Normative Bodies: Legitimizing and
Popularizing Dance in Canada during the 1950s - Allana Lindgren (University
of Victoria)
9. Gender, Spirits and Beer: Representing Female and Male Bodies in
Canadian Alcohol Ads, 1930s-1970s - Cheryl Krasnick Warsh (Vancouver Island
University) and Greg Marquis (University of New Brunswick)
Bodies in Contests
10. Nudity as Embodied Citizenship and Spectacle: Pageants at Canada’s
Nudist Clubs, 1949-1975 - Mary-Ann Shantz (Carleton University)
11. Modelling the UN’s Mission in Semi-Formal Wear: Edmonton’s Miss United
Nations Pageants of the 1960s - Tarah Brookfield (Wilfrid Laurier
University)
Part III:  Regulating Bodies
Transformations, Medicalization, and the Healthy Body
12. Obesity in Children: A Medical Perception, 1920-1980 - Wendy Mitchinson
(University of Waterloo)
13. Public Body, Private Health: Mediscope, the Transparent Woman and
Medical Authority, 1959 - Valerie Minnett (Carleton University)
14. Trans/Forming the Citizen Body in Wartime: National and Local Public
Discourse on Women’s Bodies and ‘Body Work’ for Women during World War Two
- Helen Smith (Lakehead University) and Pamela Wakewich (Lakehead
University)
Re/Producing Productive Bodies
15. ‘Flesh, bone, and blood’: Working-Class Bodies and the Canadian
Communist Press, 1922-1956 - Anne Frances Toews
16. “Better Teachers, Biologically Speaking”: The Authority of the
‘Marrying-Kind’ of Teacher in Schools, 1945-1960 - Kristina Llewellyn
(University of Waterloo)
17. Contesting a Canadian Icon: Female Police Bodies and the Challenge to
the Masculine Foundations of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in the 1970s
- Bonnie Reilly Schmidt (Simon Fraser University)
Bibliography