Research Catalog

Power & resistance : critical thinking about Canadian social issues / edited by Les Samuelson, Wayne Antony.

Title
Power & resistance : critical thinking about Canadian social issues / edited by Les Samuelson, Wayne Antony.
Publication
Halifax, N.S.: Fernwood Pub., c2007.

Holdings

Details

Additional Authors
  • Antony, Wayne Andrew, 1950-
  • Samuelson, Leslie, 1953-
Description
xiv, 492 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Alternative Title
Power and resistance
Subject
  • Canada > Conditions sociales
  • Canada > Social conditions
  • Problèmes sociaux > Canada
  • Social problems > Canada
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 414-486) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Social problems and social power / Wayne Antony and Les Samuelson -- The state and social issues : theoretical considerations / Murray Knuttila -- Intimate violence in Canada : policy, politics, and research on gender and perpetration/victimization / 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 J. Voyageur and Brian Calliou -- Keeping Canada white : immigration enforcement in Canada / Wendy Chan -- Persistent poverty and the promise of community solutions / Jim Silver -- Unholy alliances : the discourse of globalization and our global future / Parvin Ghorayshi -- A new political generation : youth engagement in Canada and beyond / Janet Conway and Daniel Morrison -- Ways of doing something : the social relations of technology and work / Krista Scott-Dixon -- Families, feminism, and the state : Canada in the twenty-first century / Susan A. McDaniel -- Private interests at public expense : transforming higher education in Canada / Claire Polster -- Health care reform : privatization 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
  • 9781552662243
  • 1552662241