Patrizia Gentile publishes in Feeling Feminism
Patrizia Gentile, Associate Professor in PJIWGS and Human Rights and Social Justice, has published an article titled “Tears and Tiaras: Affect, Beauty Contests, and Protests,” in the the anthology (UBC Press, 2022).
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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’s 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 (UBC: 2010) with Dr. Gary Kinsman.
Research Interests: Cultural/gender history; history of sexuality; history and theory of the body; beauty contests; national security; October Crisis and immigrant communities; queer theory