Contesting Bodies and Nation in Canadian History

Patrizia Gentile is an associate professor in the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies at Carleton University. Jane Nicholas is an associate professor in the Department of Women’s Studies at Lakehead University.

‘Contesting Bodies is an exciting collection that explores the complex questions that flow from placing the body at the centre of analysis.’ - Deborah McPhail (Labour/Le Travail vol 73:2014) ‘Unique collection…Readers are offered a series of thoughtful and well-researched essays ranging from the empirical to the post-structural which cover a variety of methodologies, including textual, visual, and oral.’- Jennifer Susan Marotta (Canadian Historical Review vol 95:03:2014)

• List of AbbreviationsList of FiguresAcknowledgements Introduction: Contesting Bodies, Nation, and Canadian History - Jane Nicholas (Lakehead University) and Patrizia Gentile (Carleton University)Part I:  Contested Meaning(s) of Bodies and NationsExploring the Writing of the History of the Body1. Epiphany in the Archives - Kathryn Harvey2. 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 Colonialism3. 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 BodyFashion, Clothing, and Bodies5. 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/Sexuality7. 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 Contests10. 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 BodiesTransformations, Medicalization, and the Healthy Body12. 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 Bodies15. ‘Flesh, bone, and blood’: Working-Class Bodies and the Canadian Communist Press, 1922-1956 - Anne Frances Toews16. “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