Contesting Bodies and Nation in Canadian History
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Contesting Bodies and Nation in Canadian History

  1. 448 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Contesting Bodies and Nation in Canadian History

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.

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Information

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Year
2019
eBook ISBN
9781442663152
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
North American History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. List Of Figures
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Abbreviations
  5. Introduction: Contesting Bodies, Nation, And Canadian History
  6. Part One: Contested Meaning(S) Of Bodies And Nations
  7. Exploring The Writing Of The History Of The Body
  8. 1. Epiphany In The Archives
  9. 2. Following The North Star: Black Canadians, Iq Testing, And Biopolitics In The Work Of H.A. Tanser, 1939–2008
  10. Defining (Canadian) Bodies: Race And Colonialism
  11. 3. Embodying Nation: Indigenous Sports In Montreal, 1860–1885
  12. 4. The Boer War, Masculinity, And Citizenship In Canada, 1899–1902
  13. Part Two: (Re)Fashioning The Body
  14. Fashion, Clothing, And Bodies
  15. 5. Packing And Unpacking: Northern Women Negotiate Fashion In Colonial Encounters During The Twentieth Century
  16. 6. The Domesticated Body And The Industrialized Imitation Fur Coat In Canada, 1919–1939
  17. Contesting Representations Of The Body/Sexuality
  18. 7. An Excess Of Prudery? Lilias Torrance Newton’S Nude And The Censorship Of Interwar Canadian Painting
  19. 8. The National Ballet Of Canada’S Normative Bodies: Legitimizing And Popularizing Dance In Canada During The 1950S
  20. 9. Gender, Spirits, And Beer: Representing Female And Male Bodies In Canadian Alcohol Ads, 1930S–1970S
  21. Bodies In Contests
  22. 10. Nudity As Embodied Citizenship And Spectacle: Pageants At Canada’S Nudist Clubs, 1949–1975
  23. 11. Modelling The U.N.’S Mission In Semi-Formal Wear: Edmonton’S Miss United Nations Pageants Of The 1960S
  24. Part Three: Regulating Bodies
  25. Transformations, Medicalization, And The Healthy Body
  26. 12. Obesity In Children: A Medical Perception, 1920–1980
  27. 13. Public Body, Private Health: Mediscope, The Transparent Woman, And Medical Authority, 1959
  28. 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
  29. Re/Producing Productive Bodies
  30. 15. “Flesh, Bone, And Blood”: Working-Class Bodies And The Canadian Communist Press, 1922–1956
  31. 16. “Better Teachers, Biologically Speaking”: The Authority Of The “Marrying-Kind” Of Teacher In Schools, 1945–1960
  32. 17. Contesting A Canadian Icon: Female Police Bodies And The Challenge To The Masculine Foundations Of The Royal Canadian Mounted Police In The 1970S
  33. Bibliography
  34. Contributors
  35. Index