Before Official Multiculturalism : Women's Pluralism in Toronto, 1950s-1970s
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| Autore: |
Iacovetta Franca
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| Titolo: |
Before Official Multiculturalism : Women's Pluralism in Toronto, 1950s-1970s
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| Pubblicazione: | Toronto : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2022 |
| ©2022 | |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (442 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 305.8009713/541 |
| Soggetto topico: | Community activists - Ontario - Toronto - History - 20th century |
| Cultural pluralism - Ontario - Toronto - History - 20th century | |
| Immigrants - Services for - Ontario - Toronto - History - 20th century | |
| Social integration - Ontario - Toronto - History - 20th century | |
| Women social workers - Ontario - Toronto - History - 20th century | |
| HISTORY / Canada / Post-Confederation (1867-) | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | Canadian history |
| International Institute of Metropolitan Toronto | |
| Toronto Institute | |
| Toronto and the GTA | |
| liberal pluralist multiculturalism | |
| pluralism | |
| pluralist multicuralism | |
| women's studies | |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover -- Praise for Before Official Multiculturalism -- Half-Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Part One: Introduction -- 1 The Case Study -- 2 The Scholarship -- Part Two: Narrative, Subjectivities, and Affect in the Multicultural Social Welfare Encounter -- 3 Toronto Counsellors and International Institute Social Work Theory and Practice -- 4 Professionals, Narrative, and Gendered Middle-Class Subjectivities -- 5 Marital Conflict, Emotions, and "De-culturalizing" Violence -- 6 Generational Conflict: Intimacy, Money, and "Miniskirt" Feminism -- Part Three: Community-Building Experiments, Integration Projects,and Collective Belonging -- 7 Making Multicultural Community at the Institute -- 8 Community Projects for Rural Villagers: Health and Occupational Training -- 9 Food as Charity, Community-Building, and Cosmopolitanism on a Budget -- Part Four: Ethnic Folk Cultures and Modern Multicultural Mandates -- 10 Immigrant Gifts, Pluralist Spectacles, and Staging the Modern City and Nation -- 11 Handicrafts, High Art, and Human Rights: Cultural Guardianship and Internationalism -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- Index -- Series List. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Renowned author Franca Iacovetta provides a new perspective on multiculturalism by examining the hopes and challenges of women activists associated with the Toronto International Institute. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Before Official Multiculturalism |
| ISBN: | 1-4875-5230-0 |
| 1-4875-4566-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910634055703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Studies in Gender and History