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Title

Power and resistance : critical thinking about Canadian social issues / Les Samuelson, Wayne Antony, eds.

Publication

Black Point, N.S. : Fernwood Pub., c2003.

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Additional Authors

• Antony, Wayne Andrew, 1950-
• Samuelson, Leslie, 1953-

Description

x, 435 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"How do we make sense of poverty in Canada, of globalization, of violence between men and women, of the cultural imperialism of movies, of the barriers to Aboriginal economic development, of environmental degradation and the like? These are just some of the questions taken up in the new edition of Power and Resistance. The contributors to this book do not all use an identical analytical approach. Yet, each shares a conviction that the social, economic and political issues confronting Canadians are the result of the inequalities-of gender, racialization, class, sexual orientation and so on-that continue to plague us. At the same time, each author advocates and shows that Canadians, collectively and individually, resist these on-going inequalities in order to resolve our social troubles and create a more just society. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Social problems > Canada
• Problèmes sociaux > Canada
• Canada > Social conditions
• Canada > Conditions sociales

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 385-430) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / Wayne Antony and Les Samuelson -- The state and social issues: theoretical consideration / Murray Knutilla -- Violence against women or family violence? The "problem" fo female perpetration in domestic violence / Ruth M. Mann -- Feeling framed: emotion and the Hollywood woman's film / Brenda Austin-Smith -- Constructing sexual problems: "these things may lead to the tragedy of our species" / Gary Kinsman -- Aboriginal economic development and the struggle for self-government / Cora Voyageur and Brian Calliou -- From solution to problem: multiculturalism and "race relations" as new social problems / Nikolaos Liodakis and Vic Satzewich -- Persistent poverty and the push for community solutions / Jim silver -- The discourse of globalization and the alleged ineveitability of our global future? / Parvin Ghorayshi -- Jobs, jobs, jobs: unemployment, labour-market insecurities, and the subordination of labour / Errol Black -- Families, feminism, and the state: Canada in the Twenty-First Century / Susan A. McDaniel -- The politics of parenting and the youth crisis / Jacqueline Barkely -- Position and privilege: adding value to the high-school diploma / Alison Taylor -- Privatization as health-care reform and its impact on women / Pat Armstrong -- Power and the politics of sustainability / Block 1912 Collective -- Crime as a social problem: from definition to reality / Les Samuelson.

ISBN

1552661067 :

OCLC

• 51274268
• SCSB-10924363

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library