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Item Details
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DISCOURSES OF DENIAL
MEDIATIONS OF RACE, GENDER, AND VIOLENCE |
| By: |
Yasmin Jiwani |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£29.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0774812370 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780774812375 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
15 May, 2006 |
| Pages: |
280 |
| Description: |
With examples from the lives of immigrant girls and women of colour, this book uncovers how racism, sexism, and violence interweave deep within the foundations of our society. |
| Synopsis: |
Canada prides itself on being a tolerant and inclusive culture,enriched by its official policies of multiculturalism, gender equality,and human rights. Lulled into complacency by these national maxims, thepublic is occasionally shocked by glaring acts of racist and sexistviolence brought to their attention by the sensationalist media. Butnobody pauses to consider the historical antecedents and root causes ofthese tragedies.Discourses of Denial uncovers how racism, sexism, andviolence interweave deep within the foundations of our society. Usingexamples from the lives of immigrant girls and women of colour, YasminJiwani considers the way accepted definitions of race and gender shapeand influence public consciousness. With a perspective both academicand activist, she exposes how media representations of violence servethe status quo and fail to tell the whole story about racialized andgendered inequalities.In linking race, gender, and violence, Discourses of Denialmakes an important contribution to our understanding of the complex andinterconnected influences that shape the violence of contemporarysocial reality and that contour the lives of racialized women. Thisbook is of particular relevance to readers interested in theintersection of race, gender, and violence in our increasingly mediatedsociety. |
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Canada |
| Imprint: |
University of British Columbia Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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