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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456181203321

Titolo

Painting the maple [[electronic resource] ] : essays on race, gender, and the construction of Canada / / edited by Veronica Strong-Boag ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Vancouver, : UBC Press, c1998

ISBN

1-283-13143-9

9786613131430

0-7748-5237-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (297 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

Strong-BoagVeronica Jane

Disciplina

306/.0971

Soggetti

Women - Canada

Sex discrimination against women - Canada

Marginality, Social - Canada

Electronic books.

Canada Social conditions 1991-

Canada Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Constructing Canada: An Introduction; Part 1: Parameters of the Nation; Methodology on the Line: Constructing Meanings about 'Cultural Difference' in Health Care Research; Domination and Political Representation in Canada; On the Outskirts of Empire: Race and Gender in Canadian TV News; Keeping 'em Out: Gender, Race, and Class Biases in Canadian Immigration Policy; Part 2: Constructions of Race and Gender; Documenting Racism: Sharon Pollock's The Komagata Maru Incident; Reconstructing Canadian Literature: The Role of Race and Gender

'In another place, not here': Dionne Brand's Politics of (Dis)Location'A Red Girl's Reasoning': E. Pauline Johnson Constructs the New Nation; Encountering Anomalies: A Cultural Study of Chinese Migrants to Early Canada; Part 3: Toward a New Canada; The Mountie and the Nurse: Cross-Cultural Relations North of 60; A Lesbian Politics of Erotic Decolonization; Hegemonic Nationalism and the Politics of Feminism



and Multiculturalism in Canada; Constructing Nation: The Gendering and Racializing of the Canadian Health Care System; Building Transdisciplinary Standpoints: An Integrative Bibliography

ContributorsIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z