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From beauty pageant protests to fire bombings of pornographic video
stores, emotions are a powerful but often unexamined force
underlying feminist activism. Feeling Feminism examines the ways in
which anger, rage, joy, and hopefulness shaped and nourished
second-wave feminist theorizing and action across Canada. Drawing
on affect theory to convey the passion, sense of possibility, and
collective political commitment that has characterized feminism,
contributors reveal its full impact on contemporary Canada and
highlight the contested, sometimes exclusionary nature of the
movement itself. The insights in this remarkable collection show
the power of emotions, desires, and actions to transform the world.
From beauty pageant protests to fire bombings of pornographic video
stores, emotions are a powerful but often unexamined force
underlying feminist activism. Feeling Feminism examines the ways in
which anger, rage, joy, and hopefulness shaped and nourished
second-wave feminist theorizing and action across Canada. Drawing
on affect theory to convey the passion, sense of possibility, and
collective political commitment that has characterized feminism,
contributors reveal its full impact on contemporary Canada and
highlight the contested, sometimes exclusionary nature of the
movement itself. The insights in this remarkable collection show
the power of emotions, desires, and actions to transform the world.
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Symbols of Canada (Hardcover)
Michael Dawson, Catherine Gidney, Donald Wright
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White Spot, a popular BC restaurant chain solicits hamburger
concepts from third and fourth grade students and one of their
ideas becomes a feature on the kids' menu. Home Depot donates
playground equipment to an elementary school, and the
ribbon-cutting ceremony culminates in a community swathed in
corporate swag, temporary tattoos, and a new "Home Depot song"
written by a teacher and sung by the children. Kindergarten
students return home with a school district-prescribed dental
hygiene flyer featuring a maze leading to a tube of Crest
toothpaste. Schools receive five cents for each flyer handed to a
student. While commercialism has existed in our schools for over a
century, the corporate invasion of our schools reached
unprecedented heights in the1990s and 2000s after two decades of
federal funding cuts and an increasing tendency to apply business
models to the education system. Constant cutbacks have left school
trustees, administrators, teachers, and parents with difficult
decisions about how to finance programs and support students.
Meanwhile, studies on the impact of advertising and consumer
culture on children make clear that the effects are harmful both to
the individual child and the broader culture. Captive Audience
explores this compelling history of branding the classroom in
Canada.
Historians, veterans, museums, and public education campaigns have
all documented and commemorated the experience of Canadians in
times of war. But Canada also has a long, rich, and important
historical tradition of resistance to both war and militarization.
This collection brings together the work of sixteen scholars on the
history of war resistance. Together they explore resistance to
specific wars (including the South African War, the First and
Second World Wars, and Vietnam), the ideology and nature of
resistance (national, ethical, political, spiritual), and organized
activism against militarization (such as cadet training, the Cold
War, and nuclear arms). As the federal government continues to
support the commemoration and celebration of Canada's participation
in past wars, this collection offers a timely response that
explores the complexity of Canada's position in times of war and
the role of social movements in challenging the militarization of
Canadian society.
As the South African War reached its grueling end in 1902, colonial
interests at the highest levels of the British Empire hand-picked
teachers from across the Commonwealth to teach the thousands of
Boer children living in concentration camps. Highly educated, hard
working, and often opinionated, E. Maud Graham joined the Canadian
contingent of forty teachers. Her eyewitness account reveals the
complexity of relations and tensions at a controversial period in
the histories of both Britain and South Africa. Graham presents a
lively historical travel memoir, and the editors have provided rich
political and historical context to her narrative in the
Introduction and generous annotations. This is a rare primary
source for experts in Colonial Studies, Women's Studies, and
Canadian, South African, and British Imperial History. Readers with
an interest in the South African War will be intrigued by Graham's
observations on South African society at the end of the Victorian
era.
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