Queen of the Campus : The McGill Winter Carnival Queen, 1948-1969

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Author/collaborator
Title
Queen of the Campus : The McGill Winter Carnival Queen, 1948-1969
Abstract
The author provides a brief overview of the format and history of the Winter Carnival and the Winter Carnival Queen pageant at McGill University between 1948 and 1969. She explains who the women who won the crown were—their lives at McGill, the benefits they reaped from the competition, and the role of racialized women in the pageant. The author concludes by arguing that the rise of women’s liberation in the 1960s as part of an increasingly activist campus culture led to the end of the Carnival Queen pageant.
Publication
Canadian Content: The McGill Undergraduate Journal of Canadian Studies
Volume
Vol. 11
Pages
2-21
Date
2019
Language
en
URL
Citation
McCullum, Eliza. “Queen of the Campus : The McGill Winter Carnival Queen, 1948-1969.” Canadian Content: The McGill Undergraduate Journal of Canadian Studies Vol. 11 (2019): 2–21. https://mcgill.ca/misc/files/misc/canadian_content_2019.pdf.
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