Jane Nicholas is an associate professor in the Department of Sexuality, Marriage and Family Studies at St. Jerome s University at the University of Waterloo. She is the author of "The Modern Girl: Feminine Modernities, The Body, and Consumer Cul-ture in the 1920s" (2015) and the co-editor, with Patrizia Gentile, of "Contesting Body and Nation in Canadian History" (2013).