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9780415158749

Fur Nation: From the Beaver to Brigitte Bardot

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    9780415158749

  • ISBN10:

    0415158745

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 2001-08-13
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

i Fur Nation /i 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. br Nadeau traces the centrality of fur through a series of intriguing case studies, including: br * Hollywood's take on the 330 year history of the Hudson Bay Company, founded to exploit Canada's rich fur resources br * the life of a postwar fur fashion photographer br * a 1950s musical called i My Fur Lady /i br * the battle between Brigitte Bardot's anti-fur activists and the fur industry. br 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 sexualized around female reproduction and fur, which is both a crucial factor in economic development, and a powerful symbolthrough which the nation itself is conceived and commodified. i Fur Nation /i demonstrates that, for Canada, fur really is the fabric of a nation.

Author Biography

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

Table of Contents

List of illustrations
vii
Acknowledgments ix
Prologue 1(4)
PART I Fur nation 5(60)
My fur ladies (the fabric of a nation)
7(21)
Princes, bear boys and beaver men (tales from the Beaver Clubs)
28(37)
PART II Beavers 65(68)
The eyes of June Sauer (for a sexual economy of fur fashion photography)
67(36)
My Fur Lady, or Canada's Liberty
103(30)
PART III Bardots 133(62)
BB and her beasts
135(32)
Venus forever (the next fur generation)
167(28)
Notes 195(26)
Bibliography 221(9)
Index 230

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