Patrizia Gentile’s Research Featured on CBC Radio
On March 31, CBC Radio’s The Secret Life of Canada featured research originally published in The Canadian War on Queers (UBC Press, 2010), the book Patrizia Gentile, Associate Professor in PJIWGS and Human Rights and Social Justice, co-authored with Gary Kinsman.
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Patrizia Gentile is a Professor and Graduate Advisor at the Feminist Institute of Social Transformation and an Associate Director at the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies. She holds a Ph.D. from Queen’s University in the Department of History. Her dissertation was an historical study of beauty contests in Canada from the 1920s to the early 1990s. Professor Gentile is also co-author of The Canadian War on Queer: National Security as Sexual Regulation (UBC: 2010) with Dr. Gary Kinsman.
Research Interests: Cultural/gender history; history of sexuality; history and theory of the body; beauty contests; national security; October Crisis and immigrant communities; queer theory