Painting the Maple

by Strong-Boag, Veronica; Grace, Sherrill; Eisenberg, Avigail; Anderson, Joan

• ISBN13: 9780774806923
• ISBN10: 0774806923
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-11-01
• Publisher: Univ of Washington Pr

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Constructing Canada: An Introduction	p. 3
Parameters of the Nation
Methodology on the Line: Constructing Meanings about 'Cultural Difference' in Health Care Research	p. 19
Domination and Political Representation in Canada	p. 37
On the Outskirts of Empire: Race and Gender in Canadian TV News	p. 53
Keeping 'em Out: Gender, Race, and Class Biases in Canadian Immigration Policy	p. 69
Constructions of Race and Gender
Documenting Racism: Sharon Pollock's The Komagata Maru Incident	p. 85
Reconstructing Canadian Literature: The Role of Race and Gender	p. 100
'In another place, not here': Dionne Brand's Politics of (Dis)Location	p. 113
'A Red Girl's Reasoning': E. Pauline Johnson Constructs the New Nation	p. 130
Encountering Anomalies: A Cultural Study of Chinese Migrants to Early Canada	p. 155
Toward a New Canada
The Mountie and the Nurse: Cross-Cultural Relations North of 60	p. 173
A Lesbian Politics of Erotic Decolonization	p. 187
Hegemonic Nationalism and the Politics of Feminism and Multiculturalism in Canada	p. 215
Constructing Nation: The Gendering and Racializing of the Canadian Health Care System	p. 242
Building Transdisciplinary Standpoints: An Integrative Bibliography	p. 262
Contributors	p. 279
Index	p. 283
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