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Research Interests<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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

Cross-appointments (0-100%)<\/strong>: Department of History; Department of Sociology; School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies; Department of Law and Legal Studies<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bio<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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\u00a0The Canadian War on Queer: National Security as Sexual Regulation<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(2010) with Dr. Gary Kinsman and the author of the\u00a0Queen of the Maple Leaf: Beauty Contests and Settler Femininity<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(2020) which was nominated for the Canadian Historical Association Best Scholarly Book in Canadian History Prize 2021.\u00a0<\/em>She is co-editor of two anthologies,\u00a0We Still Demand!:\u00a0Redefining Resistance in Sex and Gender Struggles<\/em><\/a><\/a>\u00a0(2016) and )\u00a0Contesting Bodies and Nation in Canadian\u00a0History<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(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 1990).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Selected Publications:<\/strong><\/h2>\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\u00a0Bloombury Handbook of the History of World Sexualities,\u00a0<\/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\u00a0Feminist Provocateur: Franca Iacovetta<\/em>\u00a0ed. by C. Carstairs et al. (University of Toronto Press)\u00a0<\/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>\u00a0(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)\u00a0Contesting 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

    Academic\/Community Service<\/h2>\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","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4179,"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":[8,9],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-1381","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-human-rights-faculty","cu_people_type-sexuality-studies-faculty"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Full 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":"patrizia.gentile@carleton.ca","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"1456","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/1381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/1381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8857,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/1381\/revisions\/8857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=1381"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=1381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}