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Discourses of Denial
Mediations of Race, Gender, and
Violence
Yasmin Jiwani
This book speaks to
me on several levels...
Discourses of Denial
compels Canadian social
scientists to move beyond
simply viewing the United
States as the ‘root of all
evil’ and to examine more
carefully the sexist, racist,
and classist nature of
their own society.
– Walter DeKeseredy,
co-author of Under
Siege: Poverty and
Crime in a Public Housing Community
Discourses of Denial uncovers how racism, sexism,
and violence interweave deep within the foundations
of our society. Using examples from the lives of
immigrant girls and women of colour, Yasmin Jiwani
considers the way accepted definitions of race and
gender shape and influence public consciousness.
With a perspective both academic and activist, she
exposes how media representations of violence
serve the status quo and fail to tell the whole story
about racialized and gendered inequalities.
Contents
Part 1: Laying the Terrain
1 Reframing Violence
2 Mapping Race in the Media
Part 2: Sensationalized Cases
3 Erasing Race: The Story of Reena Virk
4 Culturalizing Violence and the Vernon “Massacre”
Part 3: Everyday Lives
5 Voicing the Violence: Racialized Girls and Everyday
Negotiations
6 Voicing the Violence: Gendered Racism, Sexist
Violence, and the Health Care System
Part 4 Gendering Terror
7 Gendering Terror
Critical Disability Theory
Essays in Philosophy, Politics,
Policy, and Law
Edited by Dianne Pothier and
Richard Devlin
People with disabilities
in Canada inhabit
a system of deep
structural, economic,
social, political, legal,
and cultural inequality
-- a regime of discitizenship.
Despite the
widespread belief that
Canada is a country
of liberty, equality,
and inclusiveness,
many persons with disabilities experience social
exclusion and marginalization. They are socially
constructed as second-class citizens.
Critical Disability Theory argues that we need new
ways to think about the nature of disability, a new
understanding of participatory citizenship that
encompasses the disabled, new policies to respond
to their needs, and a new vision of their entitlements.
This collection will be of interest to policy makers,
professionals, academics, non-governmental
organizations, and grassroots activists.
Contributors
Dana Lee Baker; Catherine Frazee, Joan Gilmour, and
Roxanne Mykitiuk; Daphne Gilbert and Diana Majury;
Teri Hibbs and Dianne Pothier; Kari Krogh and Jon Johnson;
Darcy L. MacPherson; Ravi A. Malhotra; Theresa Man Ling
Lee; Mary Ann McColl, Alison James, William Boyce, and
Sam Shortt; Marcia H. Rioux and Fraser Valentine;
Fiona Sampson; Carolyn Tyjewski; and Robert D. Wilton
2005, 352 pages, 6 x 9”
11 figures, 7 tables
0-7748-1203-6 / 978-0-7748-1203-0 cloth $85.00
0-7748-1204-4 / 978-0-7748-1204-7 paper $32.95
LAW AND SOCIETY SERIES
2006, 288 pages, 6 x 9”
1 b/w photo
0-7748-1237-0 / 978-0-7748-1237-5 cloth $85.00
0-7748-1238-9 / 978-0-7748-1238-2 paper $29.95
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