{"product_id":"queen-of-the-maple-leaf-beauty-contests-and-settler-femininity-hardback-9780774864121","title":"Queen of the Maple Leaf; Beauty Contests and Settler Femininity (Hardback) 9780774864121","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eQueen of the Maple Leaf\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eBeauty Contests and Settler Femininity\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePatrizia Gentile (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780774864121\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 1 November 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e292 pages, 12 b\u0026amp;w photos\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.56 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e[\u003cem\u003eQueen of the Maple Leaf\u003c\/em\u003e] 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) [\u003cem\u003eQueen of the Maple Leaf \u003c\/em\u003e] 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) \u003cp\u003eGentile'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.\u003c\/p\u003e - Laila Haidarali (Journal of the History of Sexuality)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs modern versions of the settler nation took root in twentieth-century Canada, beauty emerged as a business. But beauty pageants were more than just frivolous spectacles. \u003cem\u003eQueen of the Maple Leaf\u003c\/em\u003e deftly uncovers how colonial power operated within the pageant circuit. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePatrizia Gentile examines the interplay between local or community-based pageants and provincial or national ones. Contests such as Miss War Worker and Miss Civil Service often functioned as stepping stones to larger competitions. At all levels, pageants exemplified codes of femininity, class, sexuality, and race that shaped the narratives of the settler nation. A union-organized pageant such as Queen of the Dressmakers, for example, might uplift working-class women, but immigrant women need not apply. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eQueen of the Maple Leaf\u003c\/em\u003e demonstrates how these contests connected female bodies to respectable, wholesome, middle-class femininity, locating their longevity squarely within their capacity to reassert the white heteropatriarchy at the heart of settler societies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1 Beauty Queens and (White) Settler Nationalism\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2 Miss Canada and Gendering Whiteness\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3 Labour of Beauty\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4 Contesting Indigenous, Immigrant, and Black Bodies\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e5 Miss Canada, Commercialization, and Settler Anxiety\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNotes; Bibliography; Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"UBC Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52531136921880,"sku":"9780774864121","price":56.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/queen-of-the-maple-leaf-beauty-contests-and-settler-femininity-hardback-9780774864121","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}