{"id":14717,"date":"2021-05-03T09:32:36","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T13:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/?p=14717"},"modified":"2025-10-21T10:46:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T14:46:56","slug":"prof-pat-gentiles-book-nominated-for-cha-best-scholarly-book-in-ca-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/2021\/prof-pat-gentiles-book-nominated-for-cha-best-scholarly-book-in-ca-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Pat Gentile&#8217;s book nominated for CHA Best Scholarly Book in CA History!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Prof. Pat Gentile&#8217;s book nominated for CHA Best Scholarly Book in CA History!\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/people\/gentile-patrizia\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/201\/9780774864145fc-198084-600x800-1-240x360.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/201\/9780774864145fc-198084-600x800-1-240x360.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/201\/9780774864145fc-198084-600x800-1-160x240.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/201\/9780774864145fc-198084-600x800-1-400x600.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/201\/9780774864145fc-198084-600x800-1-360x540.jpg 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/201\/9780774864145fc-198084-600x800-1.jpg 533w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/people\/gentile-patrizia\/\">Patrizia Gentile<\/a>&#8216;s book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ubcpress.ca\/queen-of-the-maple-leaf\">Queen of the Maple Leaf : Beauty Contests and Settler Femininity<\/a> has been nominated for a 2021 Best Scholarly Book in Canadian History Prize, awarded by the Canadian Historical Association.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The prize is given to the non-fiction work of Canadian history that is deemed to have made the most significant contribution to our understanding of the Canadian past. The winner will be announced at the CHA AGM on June 14th, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">Our warmest congratulations to our colleague Pat!<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cha-shc.ca\/english\/what-we-do\/prizes\/the-cha-best-scholarly-book-in-canadian-history-prize.htm\">Click here for the shortlist of nominees<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n        \n    \n    <dl class=\"cu-description cu-component-updated\">\n        \n    <div class=\"grid pt-4 pb-3 border-b accordion border-cu-black-100 md:pt-6 md:pb-5 first:border-t\">\n        <dt class=\"font-semibold not-prose\">\n            <button class=\"flex items-center justify-between w-full text-left accordion__button\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"accordion-learn-more-about-pat-gentile-she-her\">\n                <span class=\"flex-1 ml-auto text-left break-words whitespace-normal cu-icon\">\n                    Learn more about Pat Gentile (she\/her)\n                <\/span>\n                <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" fill=\"none\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" stroke-width=\"1.5\" stroke=\"currentColor\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-slot=\"icon\" class=\"w-5 h-5 ml-auto transition-transform rotate-0 accordion__icon text-cu-black-500\">\n                    <path stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" d=\"M8.25 4.5l7.5 7.5-7.5 7.5\"><\/path>\n                <\/svg>\n            <\/button>\n        <\/dt>\n        <dd class=\"p-0 mt-0 cu-prose cu-prose-first-last accordion__content md:p-0 md:mt-0\" hidden=\"\" id=\"accordion-learn-more-about-pat-gentile-she-her\">\n            \n\n<p>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\u2019s 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&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/press.uchicago.edu\/ucp\/books\/book\/distributed\/C\/bo70067419.html#:~:text=National%20Security%20as%20Sexual%20Regulation,-Gary%20Kinsman%2CPatrizia&amp;text=From%20the%201950s%20to%20the,targets%20as%20threats%20to%20society.\"><em>The Canadian War on Queer: National Security as Sexual Regulation&nbsp;<\/em><\/a>(UBC: 2010) with Dr. Gary Kinsman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Research Interests<\/strong>:&nbsp;Cultural\/gender history; history of sexuality; history and theory of&nbsp;the body; beauty contests; national security; October Crisis and immigrant communities;&nbsp;queer theory<\/p>\n\n\n        <\/dd>\n    <\/div>\n\n\n    <\/dl>\n\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrizia Gentile&#8216;s book Queen of the Maple Leaf : Beauty Contests and Settler Femininity has been nominated for a 2021 Best Scholarly Book in Canadian History Prize, awarded by the Canadian Historical Association.&nbsp; The prize is given to the non-fiction work of Canadian history that is deemed to have made the most significant contribution to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12878,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sexuality-studies-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14717"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18452,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14717\/revisions\/18452"}],"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=14717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}