Queen of the maple leaf : beauty contests and settler femininity / Patrizia Gentile.
"As modern versions of the settler nation took root in twentieth-century Canada, beauty became a business. But beauty pageants were more than just frivolous spectacles. Queen of the Maple Leaf deftly uncovers how colonial power operated within the pageant circuit. In this astute critical invest...
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Vancouver ; Toronto :
UBC Press,
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Beauty Queens and (White) Settler Nationalism
- 2 Miss Canada and Gendering Whiteness
- 3 Labour of Beauty
- 4 Contesting Indigenous, Immigrant, and Black Bodies
- 5 Miss Canada, Commercialization, and Settler Anxiety
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.