Prof. Patrizia Gentile writes on the Criminalization of Queer Communities in Canada
Patrizia Gentile, Professor and Graduate Advisor with the Feminist Institute of Social Transformation, has published an article in The Conversation titled “.” This article is co-written with Steven Maynard, Gary Kinsman, and Tom Hooper, and explores the recent intention by the Government of Canada to amend the Expungement of Historically Unjust Convictions Act. The article explores this
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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鈥檚 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