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Renowned author Franca Iacovetta provides a new perspective on multiculturalism by examining the hopes and challenges of women activists associated with the Toronto International Institute.
List of contents
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Part One: Introduction
1. The Case Study
2. The Scholarship
Part Two: Narrative, Subjectivities, and Affect in the Multicultural Social Welfare Encounter
3. Toronto Counsellors and International Institute Social Work Theory and Practice
4. Professionals, Narrative, and Gendered Middle-Class Subjectivities
5. Marital Conflict, Emotions, and "De-culturalizing" Violence
6. Generational Conflict: Intimacy, Money, and "Mini-Skirt" Feminism
Part Three: Community-Building Experiments, Integration Projects, and Collective Belonging
7. Making Multicultural Community at the Institute
8. Community Projects for Rural Villagers: Health and Occupational Training
9. Food as Charity, Community-Building, and Cosmopolitanism on a Budget
Part Four: Ethnic Folk Cultures and Modern Multicultural Mandates
10. Immigrant Gifts, Pluralist Spectacles, and Staging the Modern City and Nation
11. Handicrafts, High Art, and Human Rights: Cultural Guardianship and Internationalism
Conclusion
Appendices
Notes
Index
About the author
By Franca Iacovetta
Summary
Renowned author Franca Iacovetta provides a new perspective on multiculturalism by examining the hopes and challenges of women activists associated with the Toronto International Institute.
