Patrizia Gentile

Queen of the Maple Leaf

Beauty Contests and Settler Femininity

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Sexuality Studies
• Verlag: University of British Columbia Press
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 152mm x 228mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 434g
• ISBN-13: 9780774864138
• ISBN-10: 0774864133
• Artikelnr.: 60980544

Autorenporträt

Patrizia Gentile

Inhaltsangabe

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