Body Studies In Canada

Author : Valerie Zawilski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781773382609
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Body Studies in Canada written by Valerie Zawilski and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Representative of the emerging interdisciplinary field of body studies, this timely edited collection brings together scholars from the fields of education, social sciences, and health studies. As a whole, Bodywork in Canada answers the questions of what bodywork is and how bodies are perceived in relation to political, cultural, and socio-historical environments in Canada. Each chapter offers original research in which contributors critically analyze embodied experiences in the country. Some topics explored include the postcolonial 'othering' of the body; social discourses around 'healthy' and 'unhealthy' bodies; the promotion by fitness industries of 'ideal,' 'athletic,' and 'aging' bodies; and the promotion of self and self-awareness of the body on social and digital media."--

Author : Valerie Zawilski
Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
ISBN 13 : 1773382586
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Body Studies in Canada written by Valerie Zawilski and published by Canadian Scholars’ Press. This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we perceive ourselves and our bodies in relation to our physical, geographical, social, cultural, political, psychological, and spiritual environments? Body Studies in Canada uses intersectional methodological and theoretical frameworks to discuss the political and socio-historical discourses that shape body studies in Canadian society. This edited volume delves into a variety of timely topics including postcolonial “othering” of the body; social discourses around healthy and un-healthy bodies; intersections of aging, gender, race, class, and size; the fitness industries’ promotion of the “ideal” body; the gendering of bodywork symbols and expressions in carceral environments; and self-awareness of “the body” in social and digital media. In thirteen chapters, editor Valerie Zawilski brings together scholars from a wide variety of disciplines and expertise to provide an interdisciplinary perspective on how the body interacts reflexively with society. This collection is a foundational text for sociology of the body and body studies courses, as well as gender studies, political science, and health studies. FEATURES: - provides a uniquely Canadian perspective on body studies and the surrounding historical and political issues, with a focus on decolonization, racialization, masculinities, engagement with critical weight scholarship, and immigration - pedagogical features include section introductions, boxed inserts highlighting key concepts, learning objectives, questions for critical thinking, and a glossary

Author : Margo DeMello
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134084633
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Body Studies written by Margo DeMello and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, body studies has expanded rapidly, becoming an increasingly popular field of study within anthropology, sociology, and cultural studies. This groundbreaking textbook takes the topics and theories from these disciplines, and combines them into one single, easily accessible text for students. Body Studies is a comprehensive textbook on the social and cultural uses and meanings of the body, for use in undergraduate college courses. Its clear, accessible chapters explore, among other things: the measurement and classification of the human body illness and healing the racialized body the gendered body cultural perceptions of beauty new bodily technologies. This book investigates how power plays an important role in the uses, views, and shapes of the body—as well as how the body is invested with meaning. Body Studies provides a wealth of pedagogic features for ease of teaching and learning: ethnographic case studies, boxes covering contemporary controversies, news stories, and legislative issues, as well as chapter summaries, further reading recommendations, and key terms. This book will appeal to students and teachers of sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, women’s studies, gender studies, and ethnic studies.

Author : Xiaobei Chen
Publisher : Canadian Scholars
ISBN 13 : 1773380184
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sociology of Childhood and Youth in Canada written by Xiaobei Chen and published by Canadian Scholars. This book was released on 2017-12-12 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sociology of childhood and youth has sparked international interest in recent years, and yet a reader highlighting Canadian work in this field has been long overdue. Filling this gap in the literature, The Sociology of Childhood and Youth in Canada brings together cutting-edge Canadian scholarship in this important and growing discipline. Thought-provoking and timely, this edited collection explores a breadth of essential topics, including research on and with children and youth, the social construction of childhood and youth, intersecting identities, and citizenship, rights, and social engagement. With a focus on social justice, the contributing authors critically examine various sites of inequality in the lives of children and young people, such as gender, sexuality, colonialism, race, class, and disability. Encouraging further development of Canadian scholarship in the sociology of childhood and youth, this unique collection ensures that young people’s voices are heard by involving them in the research process. Pedagogical supports—including learning objectives, study questions, suggested research assignments, and a comprehensive glossary—make this volume an invaluable resource for students of childhood and youth studies in Canada.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004376089
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Immigration, Racial and Ethnic Studies in 150 Years of Canada written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-01-21 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immigration, Racial and Ethnic Studies in 150 Years of Canada: Retrospects and Prospects provides a wide-ranging overview of immigration and contested racial and ethnic relations in Canada since confederation with a core theme being one of enduring racial and ethnic conflict.

Author : Patrizia Gentile
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442663162
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contesting Bodies and Nation in Canadian History written by Patrizia Gentile and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2013-12-06 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From fur coats to nude paintings, and from sports to beauty contests, the body has been central to the literal and figurative fashioning of ourselves as individuals and as a nation. In this first collection on the history of the body in Canada, an interdisciplinary group of scholars explores the multiple ways the body has served as a site of contestation in Canadian history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Showcasing a variety of methodological approaches, Contesting Bodies and Nation in Canadian History includes essays on many themes that engage with the larger historical relationship between the body and nation: medicine and health, fashion and consumer culture, citizenship and work, and more. The contributors reflect on the intersections of bodies with the concept of nationhood, as well as how understandings of the body are historically contingent. The volume is capped off with a critical introductory chapter by the editors on the history of bodies and the development of the body as a category of analysis.

Author : Margaret Helen Hobbs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780889615113
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender and Women's Studies in Canada written by Margaret Helen Hobbs and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Laura Levin
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773549870
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Performance Studies in Canada written by Laura Levin and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its inception as an institutionalized discipline in the United States during the 1980s, performance studies has focused on the interdisciplinary analysis of a broad spectrum of cultural behaviours including theatre, dance, folklore, popular entertainments, performance art, protests, cultural rituals, and the performance of self in everyday life. Performance Studies in Canada brings together a diverse group of scholars to explore the national emergence of performance studies as a field in Canada. To date, no systematic attempts has been made to consider how this methodology is being taught, applied, and rethought in Canadian contexts, and Canadian performance studies scholarship remains largely unacknowledged within international discussions about the discipline. This collection fills this gap by identifying multiple origins of performance studies scholarship in the country and highlighting significant works of performance theory and history that are rooted in Canadian culture. Essays illustrate how specific institutional conditions and cultural investments – Indigenous, francophone, multicultural, and more – produce alternative articulations of “performance” and reveal national identity as a performative construct. A state-of-the-art work on the state of the field, Performance Studies in Canada foregrounds national and global performance knowledge to invigorate the discipline around the world.

Author : Irving Rootman
Publisher : Canadian Scholars
ISBN 13 : 1773380060
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Health Promotion in Canada written by Irving Rootman and published by Canadian Scholars. This book was released on 2017-11-10 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health Promotion in Canada is a comprehensive profile of the history, current status, and future of health promotion in Canada. This fourth edition maintains the critical approach of the previous three editions but provides a current and in-depth analysis of theory, practice, policy, and research in Canada in relation to recent innovative approaches in health promotion. Thoroughly updated with 15 new chapters and all-new learning objectives, the edited collection contains contributions by prominent Canadian academics, researchers, and practitioners as well as an afterword by Ronald Labonté. The authors cover a broad range of topics including inequities in health, Indigenous communities and immigrants, mental health, violence against women, global ecological change, and globalization. The book also provides critical reflections on practice and concrete Canadian examples that bring theory to life.

Author : Awad Ibrahim
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487528728
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nuances of Blackness in the Canadian Academy written by Awad Ibrahim and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2021-12-17 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in Nuances of Blackness in the Canadian Academy make visible the submerged stories of Black life in academia. They offer fresh historical, social, and cultural insights into what it means to teach, learn, research, and work while Black. In daring to shift from margin to centre, the book’s contributors confront two overlapping themes. First, they resist a singular construction of Blackness that masks the nuances and multiplicity of what it means to be and experience the academy as Black people. Second, they challenge the stubborn durability of anti-Black tropes, the dehumanization of Blackness, persistent deficit ideologies, and the tyranny of low expectations that permeate the dominant idea of Blackness in the white colonial imagination. Operating at the intersections of discourse and experience, contributors reflect on how Blackness shapes academic pathways, ignites complicated and often difficult conversations, and reimagines Black pasts, presents, and futures. This unique collection contributes to the articulation of more nuanced understandings of the ways in which Blackness is made, unmade, and remade in the academy and the implications for interrelated dynamics across and within post-secondary education, Black communities in Canada, and global Black diasporas.