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Of Silk Saris & Mini-Skirts

Author : Amita Handa
Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
ISBN 13 : 0889614067
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book Of Silk Saris & Mini-Skirts written by Amita Handa and published by Canadian Scholars’ Press. This book was released on 2003-01-08 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Handa explores issues surrounding the way identity is imagined and constructed by South Asian girls, women and South Asian community workers in Toronto. The author also examines ways in which young South Asian women are constructed and represented through discourses of race, nation, culture and community. Using feedback from her interviews, the author discusses South Asian women's struggle with the threat of the erosion of their authentic cultural practices. Handa's critical theoretical perspective illuminates how South Asian women struggle to live within the boundaries of cultural preservation at the same time that they embrace aspects of the communities in which they live. She explores whether they both desire and are excluded from Canadian cultural hegemony. She also examines the theoretical implications of exclusion and conversely, the problematic of cultural preservation.

Gender, Separatist Politics, and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon

Author : Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoué
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472125249
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book Gender, Separatist Politics, and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon written by Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoué and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2019-10-14 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender, Separatist Politics, and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon illuminates how issues of ideal womanhood shaped the Anglophone Cameroonian nationalist movement in the first decade of independence in Cameroon, a west-central African country. Drawing upon history, political science, gender studies, and feminist epistemologies, the book examines how formally educated women sought to protect the cultural values and the self-determination of the Anglophone Cameroonian state as Francophone Cameroon prepared to dismantle the federal republic. The book defines and uses the concept of embodied nationalism to illustrate the political importance of women’s everyday behavior—the clothes they wore, the foods they cooked, whether they gossiped, and their deference to their husbands. The result, in this fascinating approach, reveals that West Cameroon, which included English-speaking areas, was a progressive and autonomous nation. The author’s sources include oral interviews and archival records such as women’s newspaper advice columns, Cameroon’s first cooking book, and the first novel published by an Anglophone Cameroonian woman.

Cultural Production in Virtual and Imagined Worlds

Author : Tracey Bowen
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443818364
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Cultural Production in Virtual and Imagined Worlds written by Tracey Bowen and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-12-14 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural Production in Virtual and Imagined Worlds foregrounds how the two important fields of visual culture and Internet culture interact. This collection of essays explores the intersections, overlaps and disparities in terms of how the two discourses illuminate our everyday negotiations as we become increasingly dependent on the Internet and virtual/visual imaginings for constructing who we are. What is being examined here are the ways in which we use visual/virtual lenses to see the world both individually and collectively. This book represents a transnational effort that began as a series of conversations during the Mid Atlantic Popular/American Culture conferences from 2005–2009. The editors, a Canadian and an American, have included contributors across national and geographic contexts. Cultural Production is aimed at raising questions, crossing borders and presenting points of departure for future scholarship in the relatively new and very rapidly changing disciplines of visual and virtual cultures. Our critical approach to this study includes viewing Internet images as contested sites of cultural activity and also as sites that advance ideologies related to cultural transformation.

American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 21:4

Author : Carool Kersten
Publisher : International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 21:4 written by Carool Kersten and published by International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT). This book was released on with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences (AJISS) is an interdisciplinary journal that publishes a wide variety of scholarly research on all facets of Islam and the Muslim world: anthropology, economics, history, philosophy and metaphysics, politics, psychology, religious law, and traditional Islam. Submissions are subject to a blind peer review process.

The Grace of Four Moons

Author : Pravina Shukla
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253021219
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book The Grace of Four Moons written by Pravina Shukla and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-16 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because clothing, food, and shelter are basic human needs, they provide excellent entries to cultural values and individual aesthetics. Everyone gets dressed every day, but body art has not received the attention it deserves as the most common and universal of material expressions of culture. The Grace of Four Moons aims to document the clothing decisions made by ordinary people in their everyday lives. Based on fieldwork conducted primarily in the city of Banaras, India, Pravina Shukla conceptualizes and realizes a total model for the study of body art—understood as all aesthetic modifications and supplementations to the body. Shukla urges the study of the entire process of body art, from the assembly of raw materials and the manufacture of objects, through their sale and the interactions between merchants and consumers, to the consumer's use of objects in creating personal decoration.

Desi Tales

Author : Sarah F. Khan
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1413441173
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (134 download)

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Download or read book Desi Tales written by Sarah F. Khan and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2004-02-05 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Desi (pronounced they-see) tales is a humorous take on lesser written about elements of Pakistani and Indian culture. From a young generation of liberal leftists that baffle everyone, Pakistan television soap operas, credit card debt, the odd recruits of a well meaning MSA president, reluctant suitors, scarves, mosque administrations to people with unusual shopping habits. Desi tales is a view askew of modern Indian and Pakistani expatriate culture.

Fashioning Globalisation

Author : Maureen Molloy
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118295765
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (182 download)

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Download or read book Fashioning Globalisation written by Maureen Molloy and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-06-20 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drastic changes in the career aspirations of women in the developed world have resulted in a new, globalised market for off-the-peg designer clothes created by independent artisans. This book reports on a phenomenon that seems to exemplify the twin imperatives of globalisation and female emancipation. A major conceptual contribution to the literatures on globalisation, fashion and gender, analysing the ways in which women’s entry into the labour force over the past thirty years in the developed world has underpinned new forms of aestheticised production and consumption as well as the growth of ‘work-style’ businesses A vital contribution to the burgeoning literature on culture and creative industries which often ignores the significant roles taken by women as entrepreneurs and designers rather than mere consumers Introduces fashion scholars and economic geographers to a paradigmatic example of the new designer fashion industries emerging in a range of countries not traditionally associated with fashion Takes a fresh perspective on an industry in which Third World garment workers have been the subject of exhaustive analysis but first world women have been largely ignored

Canadian Islamic Schools

Author : Jasmin Zine
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802095725
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (957 download)

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Download or read book Canadian Islamic Schools written by Jasmin Zine and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on eighteen months of fieldwork and interviews with forty-nine participants, Canadian Islamic Schools provides significant insight into the role and function that Islamic schools have in Diasporic, Canadian, educational, and gender-related contexts.

Learning Civil Societies

Author : Penelope Cheryl Gurstein
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 0802091199
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Learning Civil Societies written by Penelope Cheryl Gurstein and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection explores the theoretical underpinnings of democratic planning and governance in relation to civil society formation and social learning.

The Relational Ethics of Narrative Inquiry

Author : D. Jean Clandinin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351977105
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book The Relational Ethics of Narrative Inquiry written by D. Jean Clandinin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrative inquiry is based on the proposition that experience is the stories lived and told by individuals as they are embedded within cultural, social, institutional, familial, political, and linguistic narratives. It represents the phenomenon of experience but also constitutes a methodology for its study. At the heart of this methodology is relational ethics. However, until now the functioning of this key relationship in practice has remained largely undefined. In this book the authors take on the essential task of developing a conceptual framework for the application of relational ethics to narrative inquiry. Building on a corpus of more generalized research, this book is grounded in a multi-year study with indigenous youth and families. The authors describe their experiences of narrative inquiry, highlighting how relational ethics informed their negotiation of these research relationships. They also engage in a conversation with the work of philosophers who have guided their narrative inquiry to offer a more thorough understanding of relational ethics. Through this, and contributions from five further studies on a diverse range of subjects, a number of key points for successful relational ethics are isolated and expounded upon. This book is an invaluable tool for researchers and postgraduates engaged in qualitative research — providing clear and practical guidance on ethical concerns. It also extends the work of the authors’ two previous titles, Engaging in Narrative Inquiry and Engaging in Narrative Inquiries with Children and Youth.

The Invisible Community

Author : Mahsa Bakhshaei
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0228006066
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book The Invisible Community written by Mahsa Bakhshaei and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The South Asian population in Canada, encompassing diverse national, ethnic, and religious backgrounds, has in recent years become the largest visible minority in the country. As this community grows, it encounters challenges in settlement, integration, and development. Accounting for only 1 per cent of the population in Quebec, the South Asian community has received limited attention in comparison with other minority groups. The Invisible Community uses recent data from a variety of fields to explore who these immigrants are and what they and their families require to become members of an inclusive society. Experts from Canadian and international universities and governmental and community agencies describe how South Asian immigrants experience life in French-speaking Canada. They look at how members of the community integrate into the job market, how they manage socially and emotionally, how their religious values are affected, and how their children adapt to French-speaking and English-speaking schools. The Invisible Community shares lived experiences of different subgroups of the South Asian population in Quebec in order to better understand wider social, political, and educational contexts of immigration in Canada.

Health Inequities in Canada

Author : Olena Hankivsky
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774819774
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book Health Inequities in Canada written by Olena Hankivsky and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a growing recognition that existing theories on, and approaches to, health inequities are limited in their ability to capture how they are produced through changing, co-constituted, and intersecting effects of multiple forms of oppression. Intersectionality considers the interactions and combined impacts of social locations and structural processes on the creation and perpetuation of inequities. This volume brings together activists, scholars, and community-based researchers to apply interpretations of intersectionality to health and organizational governance cases. By addressing specific health issues, it demonstrates that inequities cannot be understood without the interrogation of power and diverse social locations and structures that shape lives and experiences of health.

Gender and Women's Studies, Second Edition

Author : Margaret Hobbs
Publisher : Canadian Scholars
ISBN 13 : 0889615918
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book Gender and Women's Studies, Second Edition written by Margaret Hobbs and published by Canadian Scholars. This book was released on 2018-05-03 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its second edition, Gender and Women’s Studies: Critical Terrain provides students with an essential introduction to key issues, approaches, and concerns of the field. This comprehensive anthology celebrates a diversity of influential feminist thought on a broad range of topics using analyses sensitive to the intersections of gender, race, class, ability, age, and sexuality. Featuring both contemporary and classic pieces, the carefully selected and edited readings centre Indigenous, racialized, disabled, and queer voices. With over sixty percent new content, this thoroughly updated second edition contains infographics, original activist artwork, and a new section on gender, migration, and citizenship. The editors have also added chapters on issues surrounding sex work as labour, the politics of veiling, trans and queer identities, Indigenous sovereignty, decolonization, masculinity, online activism, and contemporary social justice movements including Black Lives Matter and Idle No More. The multidisciplinary focus and the unique combination of scholarly articles, interviews, fact sheets, reports, blog posts, poetry, artwork, and personal narratives reflect the vitality of the field and keep the collection engaging and varied. Concerned with the past, present, and future of gender identity, gendered representation, feminism, and activism, this anthology is an indispensable resource for students in gender and women’s studies classrooms across Canada and the United States.

Girlhood

Author :
Publisher : Black Rose Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9781556145117
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (451 download)

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Download or read book Girlhood written by and published by Black Rose Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Gender Perspectives in Indian Context

Author : Dipak Giri
Publisher : Booksclinic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9390655285
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Gender Perspectives in Indian Context written by Dipak Giri and published by Booksclinic Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-11 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today gender studies as an interdisciplinary academic field has gained much momentum in India. Contrary to conventional idea that a person born either as a boy or a girl must conform to his or her sex in his or her growth, dress and behaviour, modern Indian outlooks have rather started changing with the fast approaching new gender free world crowded with agender, bigender, genderfluid, genderqueer, non-binary and third gender people against conventional gender binary- male and female. Last few years, apart from schemes for women’s security and empowerment, have also seen the announcement of many welfare schemes for the health and well-being of third gender people of India and decriminalisation of homosexuality from Indian soil. With same spirit, the present anthology is an endeavour to shed some light on the glaring issues of rape, abuse, discrimination, exploitation and violence arising out of gender essentialism in Indian context. The anthology, with an aim to serving larger sections of humanity, covers twenty seven multidisciplinary articles hardly missing any aspect untouched from this field of study in Indian context.

Governing the Social in Neoliberal Times

Author : Deborah R. Brock
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774860936
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book Governing the Social in Neoliberal Times written by Deborah R. Brock and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neoliberalism is most commonly associated with free trade, the minimal state, and competitive individualism. But it is not simply national economies that are being neoliberalized – it is us. Inspired by Michel Foucault and other governmentality theorists, this volume’s contributors reveal how neoliberalism’s power to redefine “normal” is refashioning every facet of our lives, from consumer choices and how we approach the environment, to questions of national security and border control. By challenging neoliberal ideas and practices, this thought-provoking collection encourages us to think of the world as more than a marketplace and to open ourselves to the possibilities of resistance.

Unruly Penelopes and the Ghosts

Author : Eva Darias-Beautell
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 1554586380
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (545 download)

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Download or read book Unruly Penelopes and the Ghosts written by Eva Darias-Beautell and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2012-08-06 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays studies the cultural and literary contexts of narrative texts produced in English Canada over the last forty years. It takes as its starting point the nationalist movement of the 1960s and 70s, when the supposed absence or weakness of a national sense became the touchstone for official discourses on the cultural identity of the country. That type of metaphor provided the nation with the distinctive elements it was looking for and contributed to the creation of a sense of tradition that has survived to the present. In the decades following the 1970s, however, critics, artists, and writers have repeatedly questioned such a model of national identity, still fragile and in need of articulation, by reading the nation from alternative perspectives such as multiculturalism, environmentalism, (neo)regionalism, feminism, or postcolonialism. These contributors suggest that the artistic and cultural flowering Canada is experiencing at the beginning of the twenty-first century is, to a great extent, based on the dismantlement of the images constructed to represent the nation only forty years ago. Through their readings of representative primary texts, their contextual analysis, and their selected methodological tools, the authors offer a tapestry of alternative approaches to that process of dismantlement. Together, they read as an unruly Penelopiad, their unravelling readings self-consciously interrogating Canada’s (lack of) ghosts.