Arts & Culture
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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From Saving a Grand Old LadyPart I |
Part one of Saving a Grand Old Lady focuses on the life of Louise Bethune (born Jennie Louise Blanchard), one of the “exceptional women” admitted into the architecture profession … | Carla Blank; Tania Martin | 30 | 2014 | $3.00 Add |
From Watering the GardenThe Chretien Years From: The Tangled Garden |
A first‑hand account of the development of Canadian culture policy by the Brian Mulroney Conservative government (1984 to 1993). Focuses specifically on initiatives by former communications … | Richard Stursberg | 16 | 2019 | $1.60 Add |
From NEW! Conclusion |
Conclusion | Greg Marquis | 11 | 2020 | $1.10 Add |
From Expansion of Free Trade and Investment Agreements |
How recent expansion of Canada’s free trade agreements and the implementation of investment agreements have affected Canadian cultural policy. Deals with the Multilateral Agreement on … | Garry Neil | 15 | 2019 | $1.50 Add |
From Family as a Site of Contestation:Queering the Normal or Normalizing the Queer? From: In a Queer Country |
Michelle K. Owen’s essay looks at what recently has become the most prominent aspect of this struggle for recognition. Owen ‘s response is informed and polemical; a scholarship that … | Michelle K. Owen | 22 | 2001 | $0.44 Add |
From Intertwined TalesFrom: At Home |
Chapter 5 features interviews with Sandra Semchuk, Tim Schouten, and Marian Penner Bancroft. This chapter focuses on non-Indigenous artists whose sense of home are also inextricably bound up with … | Lezli Rubin-Kunda | 16 | 2018 | $1.60 Add |
From Saving a Grand Old LadyPart II |
Part two of Saving a Grand Old Lady focuses on the life of Louise Bethune (born Jennie Louise Blanchard), one of the “exceptional women” admitted into the architecture profession … | Carla Blank; Tania Martin | 22 | 2014 | $2.20 Add |
From The Garden InvadedThe Harper Years From: The Tangled Garden |
Developments in key Canadian creative industries (eg. television, film, newspapers) during Stephen Harper’s Conservative era (2006 to 2015); how the digital media produced a drastic decline … | Richard Stursberg | 37 | 2019 | $3.70 Add |
From Can You See the Difference?:Queerying the Nation, Ethnicity, Festival, and Culture in Winnipeg From: In a Queer Country |
Pauline Greenhill’s contributor’s biography reflects her subject position, unusual in this volume—what her essay describes as "token female heterosexual anthropological … | Pauline Greenhil | 24 | 2001 | $0.48 Add |
From Global Cultural Diversity Movement and the UNESCO Convention |
Describes the pushback to trade agreement impacts on culture internationally, and describes the creation of the UNESCO Convention (1970) and assesses the impact it has had on Canadian and global … | Garry Neil | 19 | 2019 | $1.90 Add |
From Sacred ConnectionsFrom: At Home |
Chapter 6 features Diane Pugen. The chapter focuses on artists whose sense of home is tied directly to the land itself. | Lezli Rubin-Kunda | 9 | 2018 | $0.90 Add |
From Saving a Grand Old LadyPart III |
Part three of Saving a Grand Old Lady focuses on the life of Louise Bethune (born Jennie Louise Blanchard), one of the “exceptional women” admitted into the architecture profession … | Carla Blank; Tania Martin | 25 | 2014 | $2.50 Add |
From The Ideology of the CanoeThe Myth of Wilderness From: National Dreams |
The canoe is omnipresent in Canadian history and folklore. Canadians feel that the canoe is a fundamental icon of our nationality, representing as it does our links to our history, to our land, … | Daniel Frances | 50 | 1997 | $2.50 Add |
From Conclusion |
In the Conclusion, the authors reflect on the legacy of Mother Joseph and Louise Bethune work more than 100 years after their deaths. The chapter explores how these women were able to storm the … | Carla Blank; Tania Martin | 9 | 2014 | $0.90 Add |
From Great White HopeThe Myth of North From: National Dreams |
There have been writers, politicians, intellectuals who believed that it was its northernness which made Canada distinct. The "cult of the North" gained coherent expression for the … | Daniel Frances | 46 | 1997 | $1.84 Add |
From Korea and European Union Trade Agreements |
An account of Canada’s trade negotiations with South Korea and the EU during the Stephen Harper administration (2006 to 2015). Assesses agreements like the Canada‑European Union … | Garry Neil | 19 | 2019 | $1.90 Add |