Description
Book SynopsisQueen of the Maple Leaf reveals the role of beauty pageants in entrenching settler femininity and white heteropatriarchy at the heart of twentieth-century Canada.
Trade Review[
Queen of the Maple Leaf] is a seminal contribution to better understanding how histories of women’s bodies make for legitimate historiography of settler colonialism, truth regimes and power dynamics within Canada. -- Isabelle Leblanc * Canadian Journal of History *
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Queen of the Maple Leaf ] will be of interest to all who study nation making in Canada as a process involving intersecting categories of subject positions. -- Kate Korycki, Gender, Sexuality, and Women Studies, Western Univerity * University of Toronto Quarterly *
Gentile’s compelling argument and sharp analysis of a diverse set of sources provide a rich examination of oft-trivialized beauty pageants. While Gentile hardly celebrates these events, she does allow room to consider women’s (uneven) agency.
-- Laila Haidarali * Journal of the History of Sexuality *
Table of ContentsIntroduction
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
