Before official multiculturalism women's pluralism in Toronto, 1950s-1970s

"For almost two decades before Canada officially adopted multiculturalism in 1971, a large network of women and their allies in Toronto were promoting pluralism as a city--and nation-building project. Before Official Multiculturalism assesses women as liberal pluralist advocates and activists,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Iacovetta, Franca
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto University of Toronto Press 2022, 2022
Series:Studies in gender and history
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Collection: JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Includes bibliographical references and index
  • The Case Study
  • The Scholarship
  • Toronto Counsellors and International Institute Social Work Theory and Practice
  • Professionals, Narrative, and Gendered Middle-Class Subjectivities
  • Marital Conflict, Emotions, and "De-culturalizing" Violence
  • Generational Conflict: Intimacy, Money, and "Mini-Skirt" Feminism
  • Making Multicultural Community at the Institute
  • Community Projects for Rural Villagers: Health and Occupational Training
  • Food as Charity, Community-Building, and Cosmopolitanism on a Budget
  • Immigrant Gifts, Pluralist Spectacles, and Staging the Modern City and Nation
  • Handicrafts, High Art, and Human Rights: Cultural Guardianship and Internationalism