Contesting Bodies and Nation in Canadian History

Patrizia Gentile; Jane Nicholas

Published by University of Toronto Press 2013

Contesting Bodies and Nation in Canadian History

Patrizia Gentile and Jane Nicholas

In the series Studies in Gender and History

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442663152

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Gentile Patrizia :

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

Jane Nicholas is an associate professor in the Department of Women’s Studies at Lakehead University.

Reviews

Jennifer Susan Marotta:

‘Unique collection…Readers are offered a series of thoughtful and well-researched essays ranging from the empirical to the post-structural which cover a variety of methodologies, including textual, visual, and oral.’

Deborah McPhail:
‘Contesting Bodies is an exciting collection that explores the complex questions that flow from placing the body at the centre of analysis.’

Cynthia Comacchio, Department of History, Wilfrid Laurier University:

“Filling a considerable lacuna in research, Contesting Bodies and Nation in Canadian History will serve as a foundational text for all that follows in this exciting area of study. The scholarship is exemplary, as demonstrated in its sophisticated yet accessible introduction and its original, innovative, and interdisciplinary studies. A unique and significant collection, it will be vital reading for historians, social scientists, and cultural studies scholars working in related areas and will add much to an expanding international literature.”

Keith Walden, Department of History, Trent University:

“Body history has become an important field of research, but it has been relatively neglected within Canadian historiography. This volume introduces the increasingly influential historical field through an eclectic collection of essays, all of which are based on solid scholarship and well worth reading.”

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
List Of Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
Introduction: Contesting Bodies, Nation, And Canadian History Jane Nicholas and Patrizia Gentile Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Part One: Contested Meaning(S) Of Bodies And Nations
Exploring The Writing Of The History Of The Body
1. Epiphany In The Archives Kathryn Harvey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
2. Following The North Star: Black Canadians, Iq Testing, And Biopolitics In The Work Of H.A. Tanser, 1939–2008 Barrington Walker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
Defining (Canadian) Bodies: Race And Colonialism
3. Embodying Nation: Indigenous Sports In Montreal, 1860–1885 Gillian Poulter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
4. The Boer War, Masculinity, And Citizenship In Canada, 1899–1902 Amy Shaw Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
Part Two: (Re)Fashioning The Body
Fashion, Clothing, And Bodies
5. Packing And Unpacking: Northern Women Negotiate Fashion In Colonial Encounters During The Twentieth Century Myra Rutherdale Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
6. The Domesticated Body And The Industrialized Imitation Fur Coat In Canada, 1919–1939 George Colpitts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	134
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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
8. The National Ballet Of Canada’S Normative Bodies: Legitimizing And Popularizing Dance In Canada During The 1950S Allana C. Lindgren Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	180
9. Gender, Spirits, And Beer: Representing Female And Male Bodies In Canadian Alcohol Ads, 1930S–1970S Cheryl Krasnick Warsh and Greg Marquis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
Bodies In Contests
10. Nudity As Embodied Citizenship And Spectacle: Pageants At Canada’S Nudist Clubs, 1949–1975 Mary-Ann Shantz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	226
11. Modelling The U.N.’S Mission In Semi-Formal Wear: Edmonton’S Miss United Nations Pageants Of The 1960S Tarah Brookfield Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
Part Three: Regulating Bodies
Transformations, Medicalization, And The Healthy Body
12. Obesity In Children: A Medical Perception, 1920–1980 Wendy Mitchinson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
13. Public Body, Private Health: Mediscope, The Transparent Woman, And Medical Authority, 1959 Valerie Minnett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	286
14. Trans/Forming The Citizen Body In Wartime: National And Local Public Discourse On Women’S Bodies And “Body Work” For Women During The Second World War Helen Smith and Pamela Wakewich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305
Re/Producing Productive Bodies
15. “Flesh, Bone, And Blood”: Working-Class Bodies And The Canadian Communist Press, 1922–1956 Anne Frances Toews Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	328
16. “Better Teachers, Biologically Speaking”: The Authority Of The “Marrying-Kind” Of Teacher In Schools, 1945–1960 Kristina R. Llewellyn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	347
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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	368
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	387
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	417
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	423

Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 448
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 40
- Other: 40 b&w illustrations

eBook

Published: October 30, 2013
ISBN: 9781442663152