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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.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Acknowledgements
• List of illustrations Prologue
• Section 1 Fur Nation
• 1 My Fur Ladies (The Fabric of a Nation)
• 2 Princes, Bear Boys, and Beaver Men (Tales from the Beaver Clubs)
• Section 2 Beavers
• 3 The eyes of June Sauer (For a Sexual economy of fur fashion photography)
• 4 My Fur Lady, Canada's Liberty
• Section 3 Bardots
• 5 BB and her Beasts
• 6 Venus Forever (The Next Fur Generation)
• Endnotes
• Bibliography