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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.
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.
Produktdetails
- Produktdetails
- Verlag: University of Toronto Press
- Seitenzahl: 448
- Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2013
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 30mm
- Gewicht: 680g
- ISBN-13: 9781442613874
- ISBN-10: 1442613874
- Artikelnr.: 36957888
- Verlag: University of Toronto Press
- Seitenzahl: 448
- Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2013
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 30mm
- Gewicht: 680g
- ISBN-13: 9781442613874
- ISBN-10: 1442613874
- Artikelnr.: 36957888
Edited by Patrizia Gentile and Jane Nicholas
List of Abbreviations
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Contesting Bodies, Nation, and Canadian History - Jane
Nicholas (Lakehead University) and Patrizia Gentile (Carleton University)
Part I: Contested Meaning(s) of Bodies and Nations
Exploring the Writing of the History of the Body
1. Epiphany in the Archives - Kathryn Harvey
2. Following the North Star: Black Canadians, I.Q. Testing and Biopolitics
in the Work of H.A. Tanser, 1939-2008 - Barrington Walker (Queen’s
University)
Defining ‘Canadian’ Bodies: Race and Colonialism
3. Embodying Nation: Indigenous Sports in Victorian Montreal, 1860-1885 -
Gillian Poulter (Acadia University)
4. The Boer War, Masculinity, and Citizenship in Canada, 1899-1907 - Amy
Shaw (University of Lethbridge)
Part II: (Re)fashioning the Body
Fashion, Clothing, and Bodies
5. Packing and Unpacking: Newcomer and Aboriginal Women Negotiate Fashion
in Colonial Encounters during the Twentieth-Century - Myra Rutherdale (York
University)
6. The Domesticated Body and the Industrialized Imitation Fur Coat in
Canada, 1919-1939 - George Colpitts (University of Calgary)
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 (University College London)
8. The National Ballet of Canada’s Normative Bodies: Legitimizing and
Popularizing Dance in Canada during the 1950s - Allana Lindgren (University
of Victoria)
9. Gender, Spirits and Beer: Representing Female and Male Bodies in
Canadian Alcohol Ads, 1930s-1970s - Cheryl Krasnick Warsh (Vancouver Island
University) and Greg Marquis (University of New Brunswick)
Bodies in Contests
10. Nudity as Embodied Citizenship and Spectacle: Pageants at Canada’s
Nudist Clubs, 1949-1975 - Mary-Ann Shantz (Carleton University)
11. Modelling the UN’s Mission in Semi-Formal Wear: Edmonton’s Miss United
Nations Pageants of the 1960s - Tarah Brookfield (Wilfrid Laurier
University)
Part III: Regulating Bodies
Transformations, Medicalization, and the Healthy Body
12. Obesity in Children: A Medical Perception, 1920-1980 - Wendy Mitchinson
(University of Waterloo)
13. Public Body, Private Health: Mediscope, the Transparent Woman and
Medical Authority, 1959 - Valerie Minnett (Carleton University)
14. Trans/Forming the Citizen Body in Wartime: National and Local Public
Discourse on Women’s Bodies and ‘Body Work’ for Women during World War Two
- Helen Smith (Lakehead University) and Pamela Wakewich (Lakehead
University)
Re/Producing Productive Bodies
15. ‘Flesh, bone, and blood’: Working-Class Bodies and the Canadian
Communist Press, 1922-1956 - Anne Frances Toews
16. “Better Teachers, Biologically Speaking”: The Authority of the
‘Marrying-Kind’ of Teacher in Schools, 1945-1960 - Kristina Llewellyn
(University of Waterloo)
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 (Simon Fraser University)
Bibliography
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Contesting Bodies, Nation, and Canadian History - Jane
Nicholas (Lakehead University) and Patrizia Gentile (Carleton University)
Part I: Contested Meaning(s) of Bodies and Nations
Exploring the Writing of the History of the Body
1. Epiphany in the Archives - Kathryn Harvey
2. Following the North Star: Black Canadians, I.Q. Testing and Biopolitics
in the Work of H.A. Tanser, 1939-2008 - Barrington Walker (Queen’s
University)
Defining ‘Canadian’ Bodies: Race and Colonialism
3. Embodying Nation: Indigenous Sports in Victorian Montreal, 1860-1885 -
Gillian Poulter (Acadia University)
4. The Boer War, Masculinity, and Citizenship in Canada, 1899-1907 - Amy
Shaw (University of Lethbridge)
Part II: (Re)fashioning the Body
Fashion, Clothing, and Bodies
5. Packing and Unpacking: Newcomer and Aboriginal Women Negotiate Fashion
in Colonial Encounters during the Twentieth-Century - Myra Rutherdale (York
University)
6. The Domesticated Body and the Industrialized Imitation Fur Coat in
Canada, 1919-1939 - George Colpitts (University of Calgary)
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 (University College London)
8. The National Ballet of Canada’s Normative Bodies: Legitimizing and
Popularizing Dance in Canada during the 1950s - Allana Lindgren (University
of Victoria)
9. Gender, Spirits and Beer: Representing Female and Male Bodies in
Canadian Alcohol Ads, 1930s-1970s - Cheryl Krasnick Warsh (Vancouver Island
University) and Greg Marquis (University of New Brunswick)
Bodies in Contests
10. Nudity as Embodied Citizenship and Spectacle: Pageants at Canada’s
Nudist Clubs, 1949-1975 - Mary-Ann Shantz (Carleton University)
11. Modelling the UN’s Mission in Semi-Formal Wear: Edmonton’s Miss United
Nations Pageants of the 1960s - Tarah Brookfield (Wilfrid Laurier
University)
Part III: Regulating Bodies
Transformations, Medicalization, and the Healthy Body
12. Obesity in Children: A Medical Perception, 1920-1980 - Wendy Mitchinson
(University of Waterloo)
13. Public Body, Private Health: Mediscope, the Transparent Woman and
Medical Authority, 1959 - Valerie Minnett (Carleton University)
14. Trans/Forming the Citizen Body in Wartime: National and Local Public
Discourse on Women’s Bodies and ‘Body Work’ for Women during World War Two
- Helen Smith (Lakehead University) and Pamela Wakewich (Lakehead
University)
Re/Producing Productive Bodies
15. ‘Flesh, bone, and blood’: Working-Class Bodies and the Canadian
Communist Press, 1922-1956 - Anne Frances Toews
16. “Better Teachers, Biologically Speaking”: The Authority of the
‘Marrying-Kind’ of Teacher in Schools, 1945-1960 - Kristina Llewellyn
(University of Waterloo)
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 (Simon Fraser University)
Bibliography
List of Abbreviations
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Contesting Bodies, Nation, and Canadian History - Jane
Nicholas (Lakehead University) and Patrizia Gentile (Carleton University)
Part I: Contested Meaning(s) of Bodies and Nations
Exploring the Writing of the History of the Body
1. Epiphany in the Archives - Kathryn Harvey
2. Following the North Star: Black Canadians, I.Q. Testing and Biopolitics
in the Work of H.A. Tanser, 1939-2008 - Barrington Walker (Queen’s
University)
Defining ‘Canadian’ Bodies: Race and Colonialism
3. Embodying Nation: Indigenous Sports in Victorian Montreal, 1860-1885 -
Gillian Poulter (Acadia University)
4. The Boer War, Masculinity, and Citizenship in Canada, 1899-1907 - Amy
Shaw (University of Lethbridge)
Part II: (Re)fashioning the Body
Fashion, Clothing, and Bodies
5. Packing and Unpacking: Newcomer and Aboriginal Women Negotiate Fashion
in Colonial Encounters during the Twentieth-Century - Myra Rutherdale (York
University)
6. The Domesticated Body and the Industrialized Imitation Fur Coat in
Canada, 1919-1939 - George Colpitts (University of Calgary)
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 (University College London)
8. The National Ballet of Canada’s Normative Bodies: Legitimizing and
Popularizing Dance in Canada during the 1950s - Allana Lindgren (University
of Victoria)
9. Gender, Spirits and Beer: Representing Female and Male Bodies in
Canadian Alcohol Ads, 1930s-1970s - Cheryl Krasnick Warsh (Vancouver Island
University) and Greg Marquis (University of New Brunswick)
Bodies in Contests
10. Nudity as Embodied Citizenship and Spectacle: Pageants at Canada’s
Nudist Clubs, 1949-1975 - Mary-Ann Shantz (Carleton University)
11. Modelling the UN’s Mission in Semi-Formal Wear: Edmonton’s Miss United
Nations Pageants of the 1960s - Tarah Brookfield (Wilfrid Laurier
University)
Part III: Regulating Bodies
Transformations, Medicalization, and the Healthy Body
12. Obesity in Children: A Medical Perception, 1920-1980 - Wendy Mitchinson
(University of Waterloo)
13. Public Body, Private Health: Mediscope, the Transparent Woman and
Medical Authority, 1959 - Valerie Minnett (Carleton University)
14. Trans/Forming the Citizen Body in Wartime: National and Local Public
Discourse on Women’s Bodies and ‘Body Work’ for Women during World War Two
- Helen Smith (Lakehead University) and Pamela Wakewich (Lakehead
University)
Re/Producing Productive Bodies
15. ‘Flesh, bone, and blood’: Working-Class Bodies and the Canadian
Communist Press, 1922-1956 - Anne Frances Toews
16. “Better Teachers, Biologically Speaking”: The Authority of the
‘Marrying-Kind’ of Teacher in Schools, 1945-1960 - Kristina Llewellyn
(University of Waterloo)
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 (Simon Fraser University)
Bibliography
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Contesting Bodies, Nation, and Canadian History - Jane
Nicholas (Lakehead University) and Patrizia Gentile (Carleton University)
Part I: Contested Meaning(s) of Bodies and Nations
Exploring the Writing of the History of the Body
1. Epiphany in the Archives - Kathryn Harvey
2. Following the North Star: Black Canadians, I.Q. Testing and Biopolitics
in the Work of H.A. Tanser, 1939-2008 - Barrington Walker (Queen’s
University)
Defining ‘Canadian’ Bodies: Race and Colonialism
3. Embodying Nation: Indigenous Sports in Victorian Montreal, 1860-1885 -
Gillian Poulter (Acadia University)
4. The Boer War, Masculinity, and Citizenship in Canada, 1899-1907 - Amy
Shaw (University of Lethbridge)
Part II: (Re)fashioning the Body
Fashion, Clothing, and Bodies
5. Packing and Unpacking: Newcomer and Aboriginal Women Negotiate Fashion
in Colonial Encounters during the Twentieth-Century - Myra Rutherdale (York
University)
6. The Domesticated Body and the Industrialized Imitation Fur Coat in
Canada, 1919-1939 - George Colpitts (University of Calgary)
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 (University College London)
8. The National Ballet of Canada’s Normative Bodies: Legitimizing and
Popularizing Dance in Canada during the 1950s - Allana Lindgren (University
of Victoria)
9. Gender, Spirits and Beer: Representing Female and Male Bodies in
Canadian Alcohol Ads, 1930s-1970s - Cheryl Krasnick Warsh (Vancouver Island
University) and Greg Marquis (University of New Brunswick)
Bodies in Contests
10. Nudity as Embodied Citizenship and Spectacle: Pageants at Canada’s
Nudist Clubs, 1949-1975 - Mary-Ann Shantz (Carleton University)
11. Modelling the UN’s Mission in Semi-Formal Wear: Edmonton’s Miss United
Nations Pageants of the 1960s - Tarah Brookfield (Wilfrid Laurier
University)
Part III: Regulating Bodies
Transformations, Medicalization, and the Healthy Body
12. Obesity in Children: A Medical Perception, 1920-1980 - Wendy Mitchinson
(University of Waterloo)
13. Public Body, Private Health: Mediscope, the Transparent Woman and
Medical Authority, 1959 - Valerie Minnett (Carleton University)
14. Trans/Forming the Citizen Body in Wartime: National and Local Public
Discourse on Women’s Bodies and ‘Body Work’ for Women during World War Two
- Helen Smith (Lakehead University) and Pamela Wakewich (Lakehead
University)
Re/Producing Productive Bodies
15. ‘Flesh, bone, and blood’: Working-Class Bodies and the Canadian
Communist Press, 1922-1956 - Anne Frances Toews
16. “Better Teachers, Biologically Speaking”: The Authority of the
‘Marrying-Kind’ of Teacher in Schools, 1945-1960 - Kristina Llewellyn
(University of Waterloo)
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 (Simon Fraser University)
Bibliography