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Patrizia Gentile (she\/her) is a Professor in the Feminist Institute of Social Transformation (FIST) and the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies (IIS) teaching in the Sexuality Studies (FIST) and Human Rights & Social Justice programs (IIS). Professor Gentile\u2019s research is co-author of The Canadian War on Queer: National Security as Sexual Regulation<\/em><\/a> (2010) with Dr. Gary Kinsman and the author of the Queen of the Maple Leaf: Beauty Contests and Settler Femininity<\/em><\/a> (2020) which was nominated for the Canadian Historical Association Best Scholarly Book in Canadian History Prize 2021. <\/em>She is co-editor of two anthologies, We Still Demand!:\u00a0Redefining Resistance in Sex and Gender Struggles<\/em><\/a><\/a> (2016) and ) Contesting Bodies and Nation in Canadian\u00a0History<\/em><\/a> (2014) that feature chapters on sexuality, gender, nation, and bodies. Her current projects include a history of boxing, race, and sexuality in Canada, a digital archive hosting posters and pamphlets of the Ottawa-based Beaver Boxing Club, and a history of the leather and kink communities in Canada (1930s to 2010).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research Interests: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

History of Sexuality; Queer History; Critical Sexuality Studies; Queer Theory; Critical Security and Surveillance Studies; history of the body and nation (beauty contests); history of sport (focus on boxing); digital archives; history of leather and kink communities<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Current Projects:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Beaver Boxing Club (Ottawa based club founded in 1943) Digital archive of posters and pamphlets (SSHRC-funded project-in progress)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. A history of leather and kink communities in Canada from 1930s to 2010 including a history of motorcycle organizations (manuscript)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Titles and Affiliations:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    1. Co-coordinator (with Steven Maynard), Canadian Committee of the History of Sexuality (Canadian Historical Association professional committee)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    2. Chair, Canadian Committee of Women\u2019s and Gender History (Canadian Historical Association professional committee)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      Publications:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      1. Patrizia Gentile. (forthcoming). \u201cRethinking inclusion and erasure of the leather and drag communities in the Canadian gay and lesbian movement during the 1970s,\u201d in Bloombury Handbook of the History of World Sexualities, <\/em>eds. Nina Kushner and Nicole von Germeten (London: Bloomsbury Press).<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      2. Patrizia Gentile. (forthcoming). \u201cMa vafanculo!: Killjoys, Epistemologies, and Writing Cultural History,\u201d in Feminist Provocateur: Franca Iacovetta<\/em> ed. by C. Carstairs et al. (University of Toronto Press)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      3. Patrizia Gentle. (2022). \u201cTears and Tiaras: Affect, Beauty Pageants, and Protest,\u201d in Feeling Feminism: Activism, Affect, and Canada\u2019s Second Wave, eds. Lara Campbell, Michael Dawson, and Catherine Gidney, 120-138. (Vancouver: UBC Press).<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      4. Patrizia Gentile. (2020). \u00a0Queen of the Maple Leaf: Beauty Contests and Settler Femininity<\/em><\/a> (UBC Press).<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      5. Patrizia Gentile, Gary Kinsman, and L.Pauline Rankin, eds. (2016)\u00a0We Still Demand!:\u00a0Redefining Resistance in Sex and Gender Struggles<\/em><\/a>.<\/a>(Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press).<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      6. Patrizia Gentile and Gary Kinsman. (2015). \u201cNational Security, Homonationalism, and the\u00a0Making of the Neo-Liberal Queer<\/a>,\u201d in\u00a0Queer Kaleidoscopes: Disturbing Canadian\u00a0Homonationalisms<\/em>, eds. OmiSoore H. Dryden & Suzanne Lenon, (Vancouver: UBC Press)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      7. Patrizia Gentile and Jane Nicholas, eds. (2014) Contesting Bodies and Nation in Canadian\u00a0History<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(Toronto: University of Toronto Press)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      8. Gary Kinsman and Patrizia Gentile. (2010)\u00a0The Canadian War on Queers: National Security as\u00a0Sexual Regulation<\/em><\/a>.<\/em>\u00a0(Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

        Books authored:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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        Patrizia Gentile, Queen of the Maple Leaf: Beauty Contests and Settler Femininity<\/em><\/a> (UBC Press,October 2020). Queen of the Maple of Leaf was nominated for the Canadian Historical Association Best Scholarly Book in Canadian History Prize 2021<\/span>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        Gary Kinsman and Patrizia Gentile. The Canadian War on Queers: National Security as Sexual Regulation<\/a>.<\/em> (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2010).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        Books edited:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

        Patrizia Gentile, Gary Kinsman, and L.Pauline Rankin, eds. We Still Demand!: Redefining Resistance in Sex and Gender Struggles<\/a><\/em>.<\/a>(Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2016)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        Patrizia Gentile and Jane Nicholas, eds. Contesting Bodies and Nation in Canadian History<\/em><\/a> (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        Journal Articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

        Patrizia Gentile, \u201cGli Italiani non hanno paura<\/em>\u201d: Italian-language Newspapers and the 1970 October Crisis,\u201d Quebec Studies<\/em> 55 (Summer 2013): 135-150.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        Patrizia Gentile, \u201cRestricted Access? National Security, Access to Information, and Queer (ing) Archives<\/a>,\u201d Archivaria<\/em> 68 (December 2009): 137-158.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        Patrizia Gentile and Gary Kinsman, “S\u00fbret\u00e9, risque et r\u00e9sistance: Le Programme canadien de surveillance des homosexuels durant la Guerre froide,\u201d Bulletin d\u2019histoire politique<\/em> 16, no. 3 (2008): 43-58.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        Chapters in Collections:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

        Patrizia Gentile and Gary Kinsman, \u201cNational Security, Homonationalism, and the Making of the Neo-Liberal Queer<\/a>,\u201d in Queer Kaleidoscopes: Disturbing Canadian <\/em>Homonationalisms<\/em>, eds. OmiSoore H. Dryden & Suzanne Lenon, (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2015)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        Patrizia Gentile, \u201c\u2018\u00c0 Bas la r\u00e9pression contre les homosexuels!\u2019 R\u00e9sistance et surveillance des gais \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al, 1971-1976,\u201d in Histoires de la sexualit\u00e9 au Qu\u00e9bec<\/em>, edited by Jean-Philippe Warren (VLB \u00e9diteur, 2013).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        Jane Nicholas and Patrizia Gentile, \u201cIntroduction: Contesting Bodies, Nation, and Canadian History,\u201d in Contesting Bodies and Nation in Canadian History<\/em><\/a>, edited by Patrizia Gentile and Jane Nicholas (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        Patrizia Gentile, \u201cCapital Queer: Social Memory and Queer Place(s) in Cold War Ottawa,\u201d in Placing Memory<\/em><\/a>, edited by James Opp and John Walsh (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2010).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        Patrizia Gentile, \u201c\u2018Government Girls,\u2019 \u2018Ottawa Men\u2019: Cold War Management of Gender Relations in the Civil Service\u201d, in Dieter Buse, Gary Kinsman, and Mercedes Steedman (eds), Whose National Security? Canadian State Surveillance and The Creation of Enemies<\/a>,<\/em> eds. (Toronto: Between the Lines: 2000): 131-141.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        Selected Press Appearances:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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        1. \u201cWhy is Ottawa\u2019s Pride month held in August, and not June?\u201d<\/a> CBC- All in a Day with Alan Neal, August 15, 2025.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        2. \u201cSex workers are left out in the cold by Ottawa\u2019s unjust conviction amendments,\u201d<\/a> The Conversation<\/em>, March 20, 2023.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

          Courses Taught:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

          SXST 2101 Introduction to Critical Sexuality Studies; SXST\/HRSJ 2102 Sexuality, Gender and Security; SXST\/HIST 3106 Queer(ing) Archives; SXST 4102\/WGST 5102 Queer Theory<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12878,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Patrizia","cu_people_last_name":"Gentile","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[9],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-209","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-faculty"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Professor ","cu_people_degree":"PhD (History), Queen\u2019s University; MA (Carleton University), Canadian Studies; BA (History\/Political Science) McGill University","cu_building":"","cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"PatriziaGentile@cunet.carleton.ca","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/iis\/people\/patrizia-gentile\/","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18751,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/209\/revisions\/18751"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}