Peer Reviewed Publications

Alanna McKnight (2023). “The Shocking History of Electric Corsets” in Curative Things: Objects at the Intersections of Art and Fashion, Health and Medicine. London: Palgrave. Read Here.

Alanna McKnight (2023). “Maternity Wear” on Victorian Web. Read Here.

Nav Persaud, Heather Butts, Alanna McKnight (2021). “Fighting for Health Equity in Canada and During the American Civil War: Dr. Alexander Augusta in Canada, 1853 to 1863” in The Canadian Medical Education Journal, 12:6. Read Here.

Alanna McKnight (2020). “The Kurious Kase of Kim Kardashian’s Corset” in Fashion Studies, 3. Read Here.

Alanna McKnight (2020). “Beauty in Their Form” or “Palpably Ugly”: Corsets in Toronto Periodicals, 1871-1914” in Popular Communication, 18:4. Read Here.

Alanna McKnight (2020). “Hard and Straight: The Creation of Nineteenth Century Masculinity Through Corsets” in Crossing Gender Boundaries: Fashion to Deconstruct and Reimagine Gender”, Ben Barry and Andrew Reilly Eds. London: Intellect Press. Read Here.

Alanna McKnight (2019). “Borders, Battles, and Bigotry: The Trials of Dr. Alexander and Mary Augusta” in Études Canadiennes/Canadian Studies, 85. Read Here.

Alanna McKnight (2018). Shaping Toronto: Female Economy and Agency in the Corset Industry 1871-1914. PhD Dissertation, Toronto Metropolitan University. Read Here.

Alanna McKnight (2018). “Dressmakers and Seamstresses in Toronto, 1834-1861” in Costume, 51:1. Read Here.

Alanna McKnight (2017). “Fashions from Hell: The Enduring Influence of Jack the Ripper on Dress” in Dressed to Kill: Fashionable Horror in Film and Literature, Julia Petrov and Gudrun Whitehead Eds. London: Bloomsbury. Read Here.