ISBN-13: 978-1-4426-4559-2
Editors: Patrizia Gentile (1970–) & Jane Nicholas (1977–)
Title: Contesting Bodies and Nation in Canadian History
Language: English
Place of Publication: Toronto, Buffalo, London
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Year of Publication: 2013
Format: 155x235mm
Pages: xvi+428; Bibliography, 387; Contributors, 417; Index, 423
Figures: 39 b&w
Binding: blue cloth without dust jacket
Weight: 809 gr.
Current Price: €20.54 (book: €12.39; postage: €7.41; sales tax 6.00%: €0.74)
Supplier: Revaluation Books
Order Number: 71161965
Order Date: 1/12/2022
Order Shipped: 5/12/2022
Order Received: 19/12/2022
Entry Number: 2022020
Entry Date: 19th December 2022
BOOK DESCRIPTION
From fur coats to nude paintings, and from sports to beauty contests, the body has been central to the literal and figurative fashioning of ourselves as individuals and as a nation. 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.
Showcasing a variety of methodological approaches, Contesting Bodies and Nation in Canadian History includes essays on many themes that engage with the larger historical relationship between the body and nation: medicine and health, fashion and consumer culture, citizenship and work, and more. The contributors reflect on the intersections of bodies with the concept of nationhood, as well as how understandings of the body are historically contingent. The volume is capped off with a critical introductory chapter by the editors on the history of bodies and the development of the body as a category of analysis.
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