Reclaiming Canadian bodies : representation and visual media / Karen McGarry and Lynda Mannik, editors.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Karen McGarry and Lynda Mannik -- Section 1: Embodied Ideals. 1 The Media and the Ideal and Fat Body: An Examination of Embodiment and Affect in a Canadian Context / Wendy Mitchinson, History, University of Waterloo -- We've Got Beaver! Women as a National Resource in Canadian Beer Commercial / Ailsa Craig, Sociology, Memorial University -- Ethnographic Frictions and the Ice Scandal : Affect, Mass Media, and Canadian Nationalism in High-Performance Figure Skating / Karen McGarry, Anthropology, McMaster University.

Section 2: The Embodiment of Others. Pride, Shame, and Canadian Sporting Identities: Media Depictions of Wayne Gretzky, Ben Johnson, and Georges St-Pierre / Dale Spencer, Law and Legal Studies, Carleton University, Bryan Hogeveen, Sociology, University of Alberta -- Arrivals by Boat in the Canadian Press: Humanitarian Effort or Crisis? / Lynda Mannik, Anthropology, York University.

Section 3: Embodied Activism and Advocacy. Feeling Our Pain: The Embodied Cinema of Loretta Todd / Jennifer L. Gauthier, Communication Studies, Randolph College -- On Devrait Tout Détruire : Photography, Habitus, and Symbolic Violence in Clichy-sous-Bois and Regent Park / Chris Richardson, Communication Studies, Young Harris College -- Media Legacies: Community, Memory, and Territory / Michael Connors Jackman, Institute for Social and Economic Research, Memorial University -- Conclusion / Lynda Mannik and Karen McGarry.

The central focus of Reclaiming Canadian Bodies is the relationship between visual media, the construction of Canadian national identity, and notions of embodiment. It asks how particular representations of bodies are constructed and performed within the context of visual and discursive mediated content. The book emphasizes the ways individuals destabilize national mainstream visual tropes, which in turn have the potential to destabilize nationalist messages. Drawing upon rich empirical research and relevant theory, the contributors ask how and why particular bodies (of Estonian immigrants, sports stars, First Nations peoples, self-identified homosexuals, and women) are either promoted and upheld as "Canadian" bodies while others are marginalized in or excluded from media representations. Essays are grouped into three sections: Embodied Ideals, The Embodiment of "Others," and Embodied Activism and Advocacy. Written in an accessible style for a broad audience of scholars and students, this volume is original within the field of visual media, affect theory, and embodiment due to its emphasis on detailed empirical and, in some cases, ethnographic research within a Canadian context.

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