Patrizia Gentile is an associate professor in the Human Rights and Social Justice program and the Institute of Women's and Gender Studies at Carleton University. She is co-author with Gary Kinsman of The Canadian War on Queers: National Security as Sexual Regulation; co-editor with Jane Nicholas of Contesting Bodies and Nation in Canadian History; and co-editor with Gary Kinsman and L. Pauline Rankin of We Still Demand! Redefining Resistance in Sex and Gender Struggles.

[Queen of the Maple Leaf] 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) [Queen of the Maple Leaf ] 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) Gentile'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.- Laila Haidarali (Journal of the History of Sexuality)

• Introduction1 Beauty Queens and (White) Settler Nationalism2 Miss Canada and Gendering Whiteness3 Labour of Beauty4 Contesting Indigenous, Immigrant, and Black Bodies5 Miss Canada, Commercialization, and Settler AnxietyConclusionNotes; Bibliography; Index

Patrizia Gentile is an associate professor in the Human Rights and Social Justice program and the Institute of Women's and Gender Studies at Carleton University. She is co-author with Gary Kinsman of The Canadian War on Queers: National Security as Sexual Regulation; co-editor with Jane Nicholas of Contesting Bodies and Nation in Canadian History; and co-editor with Gary Kinsman and L. Pauline Rankin of We Still Demand! Redefining Resistance in Sex and Gender Struggles.

[Queen of the Maple Leaf] 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) [Queen of the Maple Leaf ] 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) Gentile'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.- Laila Haidarali (Journal of the History of Sexuality)

• Introduction1 Beauty Queens and (White) Settler Nationalism2 Miss Canada and Gendering Whiteness3 Labour of Beauty4 Contesting Indigenous, Immigrant, and Black Bodies5 Miss Canada, Commercialization, and Settler AnxietyConclusionNotes; Bibliography; Index

Patrizia Gentile is an associate professor in the Human Rights and Social Justice program and the Institute of Women's and Gender Studies at Carleton University. She is co-author with Gary Kinsman of The Canadian War on Queers: National Security as Sexual Regulation; co-editor with Jane Nicholas of Contesting Bodies and Nation in Canadian History; and co-editor with Gary Kinsman and L. Pauline Rankin of We Still Demand! Redefining Resistance in Sex and Gender Struggles.

[Queen of the Maple Leaf] 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) [Queen of the Maple Leaf ] 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) Gentile'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.- Laila Haidarali (Journal of the History of Sexuality)

• Introduction1 Beauty Queens and (White) Settler Nationalism2 Miss Canada and Gendering Whiteness3 Labour of Beauty4 Contesting Indigenous, Immigrant, and Black Bodies5 Miss Canada, Commercialization, and Settler AnxietyConclusionNotes; Bibliography; Index