Chantal Nadeau

Fur Nation (eBook, PDF)

From the Beaver to Brigitte Bardot

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Produktbeschreibung

Fur Nation traces the interwoven relationships between sexuality, national identity, and colonialism. Chantal Nadeau shows how Canada, a white settler colony, bases its existence and its nationhood on a complex sexual economy based on women wrapped in fur.
Nadeau traces the centrality of fur through a series of intriguing case studies, including:
* Hollywood's take on the 330 year history of the Hudson Bay Company, founded to exploit Canada's rich fur resources
* the life of a postwar fur fashion photographer
* a 1950s musical called Fur Lady
* the battle between Brigitte Bardot's anti-fur activists and the fur industry.
Nadeau highlights the connection between 'fur ladies' - women wearing, exploiting or promoting furs - and the beaver, symbol of Canada and nature's master builder. She shows how, in postcolonial Canada, the nation is sexualised around female reproduction and fur, which is both a crucial factor in economic development, and a powerful symbol through which the nation itself is conceived and commodified. Fur Nation demonstrates that, for Canada, fur really is the fabric of a nation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134724826
• Artikelnr.: 39265203

Autorenporträt

Chantal Nadeau is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Concordia University, Montréal.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements List of illustrations Prologue Section One: Fur Nation 1.
My Fur Ladies (The Fabric of a Nation) 2. Princes, Bear Boys, and Beaver
Men (Tales from the Beaver Clubs) Section Two: Beavers 3. The eyes of June
Sauer (For a Sexual economy of fur fashion photography) 4. My Fur Lady ,
Canada's Liberty Section Three: Bardots 5. BB and her Beasts 6. Venus
Forever (The Next Fur Generation) Endnotes Bibliography