Inequality in Canada: Inequality in Canada: A Reader on the Intersections of Gender, Race, and Class

Designed for courses dealing with social inequality, this collection of twenty-four carefully selected readings focuses on the way inequality grows where issues of gender, race, and class collide. Written by Canadian experts in their respective fields and organized into six parts, this text reflects the range of spheres in which people experience inequality: family, education, health, justice, labour, and global inequality.

Table of Contents:
Preface and Acknowledgements ; PART I: INTRODUCTION ; The Intersections of Race, Class, and Gender in the Anti-Racism Discourse ; Feminist Intersectional Theorizing ; PART II: INEQUALITY AND FAMILY ; Part-time Work and the Gender Division of Labour (NEW!) ; Marrying Citizens! Raced Subjects? Re-thinking the Terrain of Equal Marriage Discourse (NEW!) ; Sterlization in Alberta, 1928-1972: Gender Matters (NEW!) ; PART III: INEQUALITY AND EDUCATION ; The Legacy of Residential Schools ; Fighting a 'Public Enemy' of Black Achievement-The Persistence of Racism and the Schooling Experience of Black Students in Canada ; The Persistence of Colonial Discourse: Race, Gender, and Muslim Students in Canadian Schools ; African Women and Canadian History: Demanding our Place in the Curriculum ; PART IV: INEQUALITY AND HEALTH ; Redefining Home Care for Women with Disabilities: A Call for Citizenship (NEW!) ; Affirming Immigrant Women's Health: Building Inclusive Health Policy ; Becoming "The Fat Girl": Acquisition of an Unfit Identity (NEW!) ; Yearning for Lightness: Transnational Circuits in the Marketing and Consumption of Skin Lighteners (NEW!) ; PART V: INEQUALITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE ; The Growth of Poverty and Social Inequality: Losing Faith in Social Justice ; Lessons in Decolonization: Aboriginal Overrepresentation in Canadian Criminal Justice ; The Space of Africville: Creating, Regulating, and Remembering the Urban 'Slum' ; Sharing the Wealth, Spreading the 'Burden'? The Settlement of Kosovar Refugees in Smaller British Columbia (NEW!) ; The Sharia Debate in Ontario: Gender, Islam, and Muslim Women's Agency (NEW!) ; Feminist Leadership and Female Genital Mutilation in Canada: A Community Health Centre's Advocacy and FGM Eradication Efforts (NEW!) ; PART VI: CANADA AND GLOBAL INEQUALITY ; Global Restructuring, Canadian Connections, and Feminist Resistance (NEW!) ; Whose Social Reproduction? Transnational Motherhood and Challenges to Feminist Political Economy (NEW!) ; Garment Production in Canada: Social and Political Implications (NEW!) ; Fruits of Injustice: Women in the Post-NAFTA Food System

About the Author :
Valerie Zawilski is a part-time professor in the sociology department at the University of Western Ontario at the King's College campus where she is currently teaching Social Inequality and Introductory Sociology. Prior to her current position, she was a visiting professor in the Royal Military Academy in Brussels, Belgium. She also has teaching experience at Wilfrid Laurier University, Queen's University, Trent University, the University of Waterloo, and Laurentian University. She was also a sessional lecturer at a variety of universities in the 1990s. She earned her PhD in Sociology from the University of Toronto in 1996, after having received her MA in the Sociology of Education from OISE in 1990.

Review :
A good overview of Canadian studies on inequality. Students get sound background knowledge on current social problems, research questions, methodological approaches, and a good understanding of the interrelatedness of class, gender, and race. Professor Sylvia Peacock, University of Guelph