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Fur Nation: From the Beaver to Brigitte Bardot (Writing Corporealities (Paperback)) by Chantal Nadeau is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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.

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Author

Chantal Nadeau

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9781134724796

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Folklore, Social Science