Contesting Bodies and Nation in Canadian History

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.

Patrizia Gentile is an associate professor in the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies at Carleton University.
Nicholas Jane :

Jane Nicholas is an associate professor in the Department of Women’s Studies at Lakehead University.

‘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.’

Deborah McPhail:
‘Contesting Bodies is an exciting collection that explores the complex questions that flow from placing the body at the centre of analysis.’

Cynthia Comacchio, Department of History, Wilfrid Laurier University:

“Filling a considerable lacuna in research, Contesting Bodies and Nation in Canadian History will serve as a foundational text for all that follows in this exciting area of study. The scholarship is exemplary, as demonstrated in its sophisticated yet accessible introduction and its original, innovative, and interdisciplinary studies. A unique and significant collection, it will be vital reading for historians, social scientists, and cultural studies scholars working in related areas and will add much to an expanding international literature.”

Keith Walden, Department of History, Trent University:

“Body history has become an important field of research, but it has been relatively neglected within Canadian historiography. This volume introduces the increasingly influential historical field through an eclectic collection of essays, all of which are based on solid scholarship and well worth reading.”