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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Strong-Boag, Veronica Jane.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Canada.

Women.

Sex discrimination against women--Canada.

Sex discrimination against women.

Marginality, Social--Canada.

Marginality, Social.

Canada--Social conditions--1991-.

Canada.

Canada--Race relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 p.)

Place of Publication:

Vancouver : UBC Press, c1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Painting the Maple explores the critical interplay of race and gender in shaping Canadian culture, history, politics and health care. These interdisciplinary essays draw on feminist, postcolonial, and critical theory in a wide-ranging discussion that encompasses both high and popular forms of culture, the deliberation of policy and its execution, and social movements as well as individual authors and texts. The contributors, who come from many fields, establish connections among discourses of race, gender, and nation-building that have conditioned the formation of Canada for more than one hundred years. They analyze ways in which these elements have participated in and contributed to exclusionary practices and policies, such as marginalization of women and racialized groups. Together, their essays paint a picture of a nation that privileges whiteness, masculinity, and Christianity. This book gathers many insights on the construction of Canada, hitherto scattered in the literature. It will be of interest to feminist scholars and others concerned with issues of race and gender. At times provocative, Painting the Maple illuminates the challenges that lie ahead for all Canadians who aspire to create a better future in a reimagined nation.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-13143-9

9786613131430

0-7748-5237-2

OCLC:

923442092