Passing as a “Lady”: Nationalist Narratives of Femininity, Race, and Class in Elite Canadian Figure Skating

Jan. 2, 2005

Canadian Nationalism and the Construction of a “Socially Appropriate” Femininity [1] Nations have historically constructed themselves as gendered institutions (eg. Nagel 1998; Parker and Russo et al. 1992; Yuval-Davis 1997), and at different times and for different purposes, they have sought to promote certain “official” gendered or sexual identities for...