Current Debates on Citizenship and Belonging: Multiculturalism, Gender and Sexuality
Author
Editor
- Klaus-Dieter Ertler
- Hartmut Lutz
Summary, in English
Debates around gender and sexuality currently inform important negotiations of citizenship and belonging in Canada. In this chapter, we broadly outline main areas of research in the social sciences for Canadianists from German-speaking countries. We focus on two separate but interrelated themes that have recently gained a particular salience in Canadian society and politics: 1) Gender and the ostensible ‘clash’ between minority religions and multiculturalism, and 2) sexuality and group rights, including recent examples from the fields of immigration and education. These debates highlight how closely related issues of multiculturalism, gender, and sexuality are, as well as how important they are for the continuous re-evaluation of notions of citizenship and belonging from a feminist point of view.
Publishing year
2009
Language
English
Pages
129-153
Publication/Series
Canada in Grainau/ Le Canada à Grainau. Canadian Studies/Études canadiennes: The State of the Art
Document type
Book chapter
Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Group
Topic
- Gender Studies
Keywords
- feminism
- Canada
- multiculturalism
- religion
- gender
- education
- sexuality
Status
Published
Project
- “Transfer of Cultural Praxes and Norms: Allochthonous and Autochthonous Youths between Parents, School, and Peer Group”
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISBN: 978-3-631-58942-7