Painting the Maple: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Construction of Canada - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0774806923 ISBN 13: 9780774806923

Publisher: UBC Press, 1998

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Veronica Strong-Boag, Sherrill Grace, Avigail Eisenberg, and Joan Anderson are professors at the University of British Columbia in the Departments of Education and Women's Studies, English, Political Science, and Nursing, respectively.

Review:

Such a diverse range of essays is likely to be of most interest to practitioners of interdisciplinarity ... Others will find the theoretical discussions of the construction of Canada as an exclusive nation, characterized by racial and gender discrimination at worst and cultural insensitivity at best, instructive for any branch of Canadian studies. (Judith Fingard Atlantis)

A collaborative tour de force from a coterie of scholars at the University of British Columbia ... The debates and issues raised by Painting the Maple deserve the attention of all interested Canadians and should not be restricted to academic readers alone. (Valerie J. Korinek The Canadian Historical Review)

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.

The contributors, who come from many fields, establish connections among discourses of race, gender, and nation-building that have conditioned the formation of Canada for more than one hundred years. They analyze ways in which these elements have participated in and contributed to exclusionary practices and policies, such as marginalization of women and racialized groups. Together, their essays paint a picture of a nation that privileges whiteness, masculinity, and Christianity.

This book gathers many insights on the construction of Canada, hitherto scattered in the literature. It will be of interest to feminist scholars and others concerned with issues of race and gender. At times provocative, Painting the Maple illuminates the challenges that lie ahead for all Canadians who aspire to create a better future in a reimagined nation.

About this edition

• Publisher: UBC Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0774806923
• ISBN 13: 9780774806923
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 296
• Editor: Strong-Boag Veronica