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Queen of the Maple Leaf: Beauty Contests and Settler Femininity

Queen of the Maple Leaf: Beauty Contests and Settler Femininity

Gentile, Patrizia

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Series: Sexuality Studies

Women's Studies

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ISBN10: 0774864133
ISBN13: 9780774864138
Publisher: Univ Of British Columbia
Published: Feb 4 2022
Pages: 292
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Beauty pageants in early twentieth-century Canada 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 investigation, Patrizia Gentile examines the interplay between local or community-based pageants and more prestigious provincial or national ones. Contests such as Miss War Worker, Miss Black Ontario, and Miss Civil Service often functioned as stepping stones to competitions such as Miss Canada. At all levels, pageants exemplified codes of femininity, class, sexuality, and race that shaped the narratives of the settler nation. A union-organized pageant such as Queen of the Dressmakers, for example, might uplift working-class women but immigrant women need not apply. Not unlike sports leagues linked from minor to major leagues, pageants from local to national levels formed a network that entrenched white settler nationalism in the context of the beauty industrial complex.

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