Review: Feminist Perspectives on Canadian Foreign Policy
| Date | 01 June 2004 |
| Published date | 01 June 2004 |
| Author | Melissa Haussman |
| DOI | 10.1177/002070200405900221 |
| Subject Matter | Review |
Reviews
prevent
Chinese
from
smuggling produce
in
violation
of
discrimina-
tory
marketing
regulations.
Given
this emphasis
on
local
develop-
ments,
a
detailed
map
of
British
Columbia
indicating
places
men-
tioned
in
the
text
would
have
been
useful
to
readers
unfamiliar
with
the
province's
geography.
Moreover,
the
book
could
have
benefited
from tables, like
those at
the
end
of
Roy's
first volume,
showing
immigration
statistics
and
the
percentage
of
Asian-Canadians
in
the
general
population
and
various
economic
sectors.
Yet
these
are
small
oversights in
what
is
certain
to
become the
authoritative
work
on
anti-Asian
sentiment
in
Canada
between
the
wars
and
essential read-
ing
for
those
interested
in
immigration
and
ethnicity
studies.
Roy
anticipates
a
third
volume
that
will
take
the
story from war
in
the
Pacific
in
1941
to
Ottawa's
decision
in
1967
to
admit
Asians
to
Canada
as
"first
class"
citizens
on
the
same
basis
as
European
immi-
grants.
If
the
first
two
parts
of
this
trilogy
are
any
indication,
we can
expect
an
equally
solid
work on
a
complex
but
important
chapter
in
our
history.
John Meehan/University
of
Toronto
FEMINIST
PERSPECTIVES
ON
CANADIAN
FOREIGN
POLICY
Edited
by
Claire
T
Sjolander,
Heather
A.
Smith and
Deborah Stienstra
Toronto:
Oxford
University
Press,
2003,
xiv,
246
pp,
$39.95
paper
(ISBN
0-19-541836-0)
T
his
work
is
part
of
a
cutting-edge
area
of
foreign
policy
scholarship
examining
the
ways
in
which
the
study
of
foreign
and
security
policy,
which
is
often
difficult
to
"gender,"
might
be
combined
with
feminist approaches
to
global concerns.
The
co-editors,
all
well-
known
scholars
in their
field,
mention
that
the impetus
for
this
book
emerged
generally
from
an
effort
to
mine
foreign
policy
scholarship
for
gender
responsiveness
and
specifically
from
a 1999
Canadian
Centre
for
Foreign
Policy
workshop.
Feminist
Perspectives
on
Canadian
Foreign
Policy
is
to
be
commended
for
its
ambitious
attempt
to
expose
both
the "multiple
sites
of
foreign
policy"
and
the
views
of
"differing
feminist
analyses"
(p
1).
To
this
end,
the
work
is
divided
into
four
parts
which
examine
globalization
and
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