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

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"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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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Iacovetta, Franca, 1957- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2022.
Series:Studies in gender and history ; 53.
Subjects:
International Institute of Metropolitan Toronto > History > 20th century.
1900-1999
Women social workers > Ontario > Toronto > History > 20th century.
Immigrants > Services for > Ontario > Toronto > History > 20th century.
Cultural pluralism > Ontario > Toronto > History > 20th century.
Community activists > Ontario > Toronto > History > 20th century.
Social integration > Ontario > Toronto > History > 20th century.
Travailleuses sociales > Ontario > Toronto > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Diversité culturelle > Ontario > Toronto > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Intégration sociale > Ontario > Toronto > Histoire > 20e siècle.
HISTORY / Canada / Post-Confederation (1867-).
Community activists
Cultural pluralism
Ethnic relations
Immigrants > Services for
Social integration
Women social workers
Toronto (Ont.) > Ethnic relations > History > 20th century.
Ontario > Toronto
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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