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Before Official Multiculturalism : Women's Pluralism in Toronto, 1950s-1970s.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Iacovetta, Franca.
- Series:
- Studies in Gender and History
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Community activists--Ontario--Toronto--History--20th century.
- Community activists.
- Cultural pluralism--Ontario--Toronto--History--20th century.
- Cultural pluralism.
- Immigrants--Services for--Ontario--Toronto--History--20th century.
- Immigrants.
- Social integration--Ontario--Toronto--History--20th century.
- Social integration.
- Women social workers--Ontario--Toronto--History--20th century.
- Women social workers.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (442 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2022.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-4875-5230-0
- 1-4875-4566-5
- OCLC:
- 1334480238
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