Painting the Maple : Essays on Race, Gender, and the Construction of Canada.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (297 pages)
Intro -- 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 -- Contributors -- Index -- 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.
Gathering insights from numerous fields about the construction of Canada, this provocative volume illuminates the challenges that lie ahead for all Canadians who aspire to create a better future.
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Women -- Canada. Sex discrimination against women -- Canada. Marginality, Social -- Canada. Canada -- Social conditions -- 1991-. Canada -- Race relations.