Jane Nicholas
Biographic Data
| ID | 3803239 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jane Nicholas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jane |
| FAMILY NAME | Nicholas |
| SIGNATURE | NICHOLAS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | St. Jerome's University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7657-6837 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Infanticide in the Americas? An Introductory Essay
The introduction to the special issue explains the significance of studying infanticide in the frame of the Americas and outlines some of the important themes and findings that emerge from the papers. The introduction explores how authors have uncovered a range of reactions to infanticide, how social and emotional contexts matter in cases of suspicious infant deaths, and how and why sexual honor and shame mitigated social and criminal sanctions. …
Cruel Injustice”
Using two comparatively well documented cases of suspected infanticide in Upper Canada, this article considers the role of compassion. In re-examining infanticide in Upper Canada (1791–1841) to 1831 when the statutory law on infanticide changed to try newborn murders exclusively as homicide, I focus here on a small number of newborn murder cases tried as either infanticide or homicide centering on the comparatively well documented cases of Angeli…
The Lives of Infamous Children
This article examines children's roles in infanticide cases in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Ontario. Using criminal and coroner case files, it argues for the value of fragmentary evidence to reveal the varied ways girls and boys participated in and reported on suspicious infant deaths. Children could be involved in helping to dispose of infant remains from births in their households and were otherwise witnesses to girls’ and women'…
Cheryl Thompson, Beauty in a Box
Find information about UTP Journals. University of Toronto Press is Canada’s leading academic publisher and one of the largest university presses in North America, with particular strengths in the social sciences, humanities, and business. The Book Publishing Division is widely recognized in Canada for its strength in history, political science, sociology, Indigenous studies, and cultural studies. Internationally, UTP is a leading publisher of me…
The Business of Beauty
Reviewed by: The Business of Beauty: Gender and the Body in Modern London by Jessica P. Clark Jane Nicholas Clark, Jessica P. –The Business of Beauty: Gender and the Body in Modern London. London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020. Pp. 675. Anyone who studies beauty, especially female beauty, waits for the inevitable comment about some individual's preference for "natural" beauty. As Jessica P. Clark asserts in her important new study on British beaut…
M.A. Hall, Muscle on Wheels
Canadian Carnival Freaks and the Extraordinary Body, 1900-1970s
In 1973, a five-year-old girl known as Pookie was exhibited as "The Monkey Girl" at the Canadian National Exhibition.Dressed only in her diaper and on display for just one day before complaints closed the exhibit down, she would be the last of many children exhibited as "freaks" in twentieth-century Canada.Jane Nicholas takes us on a search for answers about how and why the freak show persisted into the 1970s and offers a sophisticated analysis o…
On display
Plucked
Plucked is a cultural history of American hair removal practices and their associated meanings from the eighteenth century to the present day. In nine thematic and largely chronological chapters, H
Feminist History in Canada
"Feminist History in Canada: New Essays on Women, Work, and Nation, edited by Catherine Carstairs and Nancy Janovicek." Canadian Journal of History, 49(3), pp. 529–530
A Debt to the Dead? Ethics, Photography, History, and the Study of Freakery
Do historians have an ethical duty to the dead? Using the context of the history of North American freak shows in the twentieth century in general and a photograph of "the Elephant Skinned Boys" in particular, this article explores the knot of historical practice, ethics, and the politics of archiving and publishing to question whether or not historical practice may perpetuate vulnerabilities and inequities. The fragments of archival documents ca…
Contesting Bodies and Nation in Canadian History
From fur coats to nude paintings, and from sports to beauty contests, the body has been central to the literal and figurative fashioning of ourselves as individuals and as a nation. In this first collection on the history of the body in Canada, an interdisciplinary group of scholars explores the multiple ways the body has served as a site of contestation in Canadian history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.Showcasing a variety of methodo…
Gendering the Jubilee
This article explores the nexus of gender, modernity, and visuality in the Diamond Jubilee of Confederation celebrations in 1927. Using the jubilee as a case study of the continuing conservative elements after the First World War, this essay argues that jubilee material promoted the idea that certain men had the ability to see the potential of the nation in relation to particular spaces, especially the North. Further, in privileging a specific gr…
A figure of a nude woman
Trois peintures de nus étaient exposées dans la galerie d'arts de l'Exposition nationale canadienne de 1927 à Toronto. Leur présence a suscité dans les éditoriaux et les lettres à la rédaction des journaux un débat qui transcendait les peintures proprement dites pour révéler des préoccupations sur la modernité et la négociation du tournant culturel dans les années 1920. L'évolution perçue des moeurs, la culture populaire et le corps de la femme é…
A Debt to the Dead? Ethics, Photography, History, and the Study of Freakery
Do historians have an ethical duty to the dead? Using the context of the history of North American freak shows in the twentieth century in general and a photograph of "the Elephant Skinned Boys" in particular, this article explores the knot of historical practice, ethics, and the politics of archiving and publishing to question whether or not historical practice may perpetuate vulnerabilities and inequities. The fragments of archival documents ca…
A figure of a nude woman
Trois peintures de nus étaient exposées dans la galerie d'arts de l'Exposition nationale canadienne de 1927 à Toronto. Leur présence a suscité dans les éditoriaux et les lettres à la rédaction des journaux un débat qui transcendait les peintures proprement dites pour révéler des préoccupations sur la modernité et la négociation du tournant culturel dans les années 1920. L'évolution perçue des moeurs, la culture populaire et le corps de la femme é…
Gendering the Jubilee
This article explores the nexus of gender, modernity, and visuality in the Diamond Jubilee of Confederation celebrations in 1927. Using the jubilee as a case study of the continuing conservative elements after the First World War, this essay argues that jubilee material promoted the idea that certain men had the ability to see the potential of the nation in relation to particular spaces, especially the North. Further, in privileging a specific gr…
Contesting Bodies and Nation in Canadian History
From fur coats to nude paintings, and from sports to beauty contests, the body has been central to the literal and figurative fashioning of ourselves as individuals and as a nation. In this first collection on the history of the body in Canada, an interdisciplinary group of scholars explores the multiple ways the body has served as a site of contestation in Canadian history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.Showcasing a variety of methodo…
Feminist History in Canada
"Feminist History in Canada: New Essays on Women, Work, and Nation, edited by Catherine Carstairs and Nancy Janovicek." Canadian Journal of History, 49(3), pp. 529–530
A Debt to the Dead? Ethics, Photography, History, and the Study of Freakery
Do historians have an ethical duty to the dead? Using the context of the history of North American freak shows in the twentieth century in general and a photograph of "the Elephant Skinned Boys" in particular, this article explores the knot of historical practice, ethics, and the politics of archiving and publishing to question whether or not historical practice may perpetuate vulnerabilities and inequities. The fragments of archival documents ca…
Plucked
Plucked is a cultural history of American hair removal practices and their associated meanings from the eighteenth century to the present day. In nine thematic and largely chronological chapters, H
Canadian Carnival Freaks and the Extraordinary Body, 1900-1970s
In 1973, a five-year-old girl known as Pookie was exhibited as "The Monkey Girl" at the Canadian National Exhibition.Dressed only in her diaper and on display for just one day before complaints closed the exhibit down, she would be the last of many children exhibited as "freaks" in twentieth-century Canada.Jane Nicholas takes us on a search for answers about how and why the freak show persisted into the 1970s and offers a sophisticated analysis o…
On display
M.A. Hall, Muscle on Wheels
Cheryl Thompson, Beauty in a Box
Find information about UTP Journals. University of Toronto Press is Canada’s leading academic publisher and one of the largest university presses in North America, with particular strengths in the social sciences, humanities, and business. The Book Publishing Division is widely recognized in Canada for its strength in history, political science, sociology, Indigenous studies, and cultural studies. Internationally, UTP is a leading publisher of me…
The Business of Beauty
Reviewed by: The Business of Beauty: Gender and the Body in Modern London by Jessica P. Clark Jane Nicholas Clark, Jessica P. –The Business of Beauty: Gender and the Body in Modern London. London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020. Pp. 675. Anyone who studies beauty, especially female beauty, waits for the inevitable comment about some individual's preference for "natural" beauty. As Jessica P. Clark asserts in her important new study on British beaut…
Infanticide in the Americas? An Introductory Essay
The introduction to the special issue explains the significance of studying infanticide in the frame of the Americas and outlines some of the important themes and findings that emerge from the papers. The introduction explores how authors have uncovered a range of reactions to infanticide, how social and emotional contexts matter in cases of suspicious infant deaths, and how and why sexual honor and shame mitigated social and criminal sanctions. …
Cruel Injustice”
Using two comparatively well documented cases of suspected infanticide in Upper Canada, this article considers the role of compassion. In re-examining infanticide in Upper Canada (1791–1841) to 1831 when the statutory law on infanticide changed to try newborn murders exclusively as homicide, I focus here on a small number of newborn murder cases tried as either infanticide or homicide centering on the comparatively well documented cases of Angeli…
The Lives of Infamous Children
This article examines children's roles in infanticide cases in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Ontario. Using criminal and coroner case files, it argues for the value of fragmentary evidence to reveal the varied ways girls and boys participated in and reported on suspicious infant deaths. Children could be involved in helping to dispose of infant remains from births in their households and were otherwise witnesses to girls’ and women'…
Sociology (9 works) · Art (8 works) · Canadian Identity and History (8 works) · History (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Art history (3 works)