This collection of twenty-three carefully selected readings focuses on the ways in which inequality grows where issues of gender, race, and class collide. Written by Canadian experts in their respective fields, this text examines inequality in the family, education, health, justice, labour, and
global spheres.
Part One: Introduction
1. George Sefa Dei: The Intersections of Race, Class, and Gender in the Anti-Racism Discourse
2. Daiva K. Stasiulis: Feminist Intersectional Theorizing
Part Two: Inequality and Family
3. Colleen Reid and Robin A. LeDrew: The Burden of Being
"Employable": Underpaid and Unpaid Work and Women's Health (NEW)
4. Valerie Preston, Ann Kim, Samantha Hudyma, Nancy Mandell, Meg Luxton, and Julia Hemphill: Gender, Race, and Immigration: Aging and Economic Security in Canada (NEW)
5. Jana Grekul: Sterilization in Alberta, 1928-1972: Gender
Matters
Part Three: Inequality and Education
6. Bernard Schissel and Terry Wotherspoon: The Legacy of Residential Schools
7. Henry M. Codjoe: Fighting a "Public Enemy" of Black Academic Achievement: The Persistence of Racism and the Schooling Experience of Black Students in
Canada
8. Goli Rezai-Rashti: The Persistence of Colonial Discourse: Race, Gender, and Muslim Students in Canadian Schools
9. Njoki Nathani Wane: African Women and Canadian History: Demanding Our Place in the Curriculum
Part Four: Inequality and Health
10. Kari Krogh:
Redefining Home Care for Women with Disabilities: A Call for Citizenship
11. Marian MacKinnon and Laura Lee Howard: Affirming Immigrant Women's Health: Building Inclusive Health Policy
12. Carla Rice: Becoming "The Fat Girl": Acquisition of an Unfit Identity
13. Evelyn Nakano Glenn:
Yearning for Lightness: Transnational Circuits in the Marketing and Consumption of Skin Lighteners
Part Five: Inequality and Social Justice
14. Ann Duffy and Nancy Mandell: The Growth of Poverty and Social Inequality: Losing Faith in Social Justice
15. Patricia A. Monture-Angus:
Lessons in Decolonization: Aboriginal Overrepresentation in Canadian Criminal Justice
16. Jennifer J. Nelson: The Space of Africville: Creating, Regulating, and Remembering the Urban "Slum"
17. Sarah Hunt: Decolonizing Sex Work: Developing an Intersectional Indigenous Approach (NEW)
18.
Anna Korteweg: The Sharia Debate in Ontario: Gender, Islam, and Representations of Muslim Women's Agency
19. Wangari Esther Tharao and Linda Cornwell: Feminist Leadership and Female Genital Mutilation in Canada: A Community Health Centre's Advocacy and FGM Eradication Efforts
Part Six:
Canada and Global Inequality
20. Nira Yuval-Davis: The Politics of Belonging: Framing the Questions (NEW)
21. Sedef Arat-Koç: Whose Social Reproduction? Transnational Motherhood and Challenges to Feminist Political Economy
22. Helen Jefferson Lenskyj: In the Pool, on the Ice:
Contested Terrain (NEW)
23. Deborah Barndt: Fruits of Injustice: Women in the Post-NAFTA Food System
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Valerie Zawilski is associate professor in the Department of Sociology at King's University College, Western University. She specializes in political sociology, social movements, terrorism studies, and inequality. Prior to her current position, she was a visiting professor in the Royal
Military Academy in Brussels, Belgium. She has also taught at Wilfrid Laurier University, Queen's University, Trent University, the University of Waterloo, and Laurentian University. She was an editor on the two previous editions of Inequality in Canada for Oxford University Press Canada.
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