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- Title
Queen of the Maple Leaf: Beauty Contests and Settler Femininity by Patrizia Gentile (review).
- Authors
Haidarali, Laila
- Abstract
At the crux of her analysis, Gentile argues for understanding these shifts as a "deliberate and methodical development of settler femininity" aimed at producing "an example of the only legitimate desirable body in the settler society" (19). I Queen of the Maple Leaf i , the most recent title in UBC Press's sexuality studies series, offers a rich cultural history of beauty contests in Canada. At the same time, Gentile points to the efficacy of beauty rituals and beauty practices in disciplining the racialized "other" through demands for conformity to white-settler femininity, which was as much a heteronormative model as a middle-class one.
- Subjects
BEAUTY contests; FEMININITY; PROMOTIONAL literature; WHITE nationalism; BEAUTY pageant contestants
- Publication
Journal of the History of Sexuality, 2023, Vol 32, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1043-4070
- Publication type
Article