Contesting Bodies and Nation in Canadian History

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)

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