Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/ToDa93q Fur Nation From the Beaver to Brigitte Bardot By: Chantal Nadeau Publisher: Routledge Print ISBN: 9780415158732, 0415158737 eText ISBN: 9781134724819, 1134724810 Edition: 1st Pages: 256 Copyright year: 2001 Format: EPUB Available from $ 16.38 USD SKU 9781134724819R90 Fur Nation 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. Nadeau traces the centrality of fur through a series of intriguing case studies, including: * Hollywood's take on the 330 year history of the Hudson Bay Company, founded to exploit Canada's rich fur resources * the life of a postwar fur fashion photographer * a 1950s musical called Fur Lady * the battle between Brigitte Bardot's anti-fur activists and the fur industry. 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 sexualised around female reproduction and fur, which is both a crucial factor in economic development, and a powerful symbol through which the nation itself is conceived and commodified. Fur Nation demonstrates that, for Canada, fur really is the fabric of a nation. Additional ISBNs 9781280107511, 9780203995464, 9780415158732, 9780415158749, 1280107510, 0203995465, 0415158737, 0415158745
