Contesting Bodies and Nation in Canadian History

by Jane Nicholas

Book Overview

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.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442613874
• ISBN13: 9781442613874
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 8.9"