Contesting Bodies and Nation in Canadian History / / Jane Nicholas, Patrizia Gentile.

• VerfasserIn: Gentile, Patrizia,; Nicholas, Jane,
• TeilnehmendeR: Nicholas, Jane,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Gender and History
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

From fur coats to nude paintings, and from sports to beauty contests, the body has been central to the literal and figurative fashioning of ourselves as individuals and as a nation. 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.Showcasing a variety of methodological approaches, Contesting Bodies and Nation in Canadian History includes essays on many themes that engage with the larger historical relationship between the body and nation: medicine and health, fashion and consumer culture, citizenship and work, and more. The contributors reflect on the intersections of bodies with the concept of nationhood, as well as how understandings of the body are historically contingent. The volume is capped off with a critical introductory chapter by the editors on the history of bodies and the development of the body as a category of analysis.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List Of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Contesting Bodies, Nation, And Canadian History / Nicholas, Jane / Gentile, Patrizia -- Part One: Contested Meaning(S) Of Bodies And Nations -- Exploring The Writing Of The History Of The Body -- 1. Epiphany In The Archives / Harvey, Kathryn -- 2. Following The North Star: Black Canadians, Iq Testing, And Biopolitics In The Work Of H.A. Tanser, 1939-2008 / Walker, Barrington -- Defining (Canadian) Bodies: Race And Colonialism -- 3. Embodying Nation: Indigenous Sports In Montreal, 1860-1885 / Poulter, Gillian -- 4. The Boer War, Masculinity, And Citizenship In Canada, 1899-1902 / Shaw, Amy -- 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 / Rutherdale, Myra -- 6. The Domesticated Body And The Industrialized Imitation Fur Coat In Canada, 1919-1939 / Colpitts, George -- Contesting Representations Of The Body/Sexuality -- 7. An Excess Of Prudery? Lilias Torrance Newton'S Nude And The Censorship Of Interwar Canadian Painting / Syperek, Pandora -- 8. The National Ballet Of Canada'S Normative Bodies: Legitimizing And Popularizing Dance In Canada During The 1950S / Lindgren, Allana C. -- 9. Gender, Spirits, And Beer: Representing Female And Male Bodies In Canadian Alcohol Ads, 1930S-1970S / Krasnick Warsh, Cheryl / Marquis, Greg -- Bodies In Contests -- 10. Nudity As Embodied Citizenship And Spectacle: Pageants At Canada'S Nudist Clubs, 1949-1975 / Shantz, Mary-Ann -- 11. Modelling The U.N.'S Mission In Semi-Formal Wear: Edmonton'S Miss United Nations Pageants Of The 1960S / Brookfield, Tarah -- Part Three: Regulating Bodies -- Transformations, Medicalization, And The Healthy Body -- 12. Obesity In Children: A Medical Perception, 1920-1980 / Mitchinson, Wendy -- 13. Public Body, Private Health: Mediscope, The Transparent Woman, And Medical Authority, 1959 / Minnett, Valerie -- 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 / Smith, Helen / Wakewich, Pamela -- Re/Producing Productive Bodies -- 15. "Flesh, Bone, And Blood": Working-Class Bodies And The Canadian Communist Press, 1922-1956 / Toews, Anne Frances -- 16. "Better Teachers, Biologically Speaking": The Authority Of The "Marrying-Kind" Of Teacher In Schools, 1945-1960 / Llewellyn, Kristina R. -- 17. Contesting A Canadian Icon: Female Police Bodies And The Challenge To The Masculine Foundations Of The Royal Canadian Mounted Police In The 1970S / Reilly Schmidt, Bonnie -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index