Social policy, education, and childhood in dangerous times: revolutionary actions or global complicity.
The first issue by the new editors of the International Journal of Educational Policy, Research, & Practice: Reconceptualizing Childhood Studies is designed to (1) introduce the reader to a focus that emphasizes the international movement that would rethink the various constructions of childhood studies in ways that bring to...

Overlapping and interlocking frames for humanities literary studies: Assia Djebar, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Gloria Anzaldua.
This article addresses the need for more comparative perspectives among four cognate fields of study: postcolonial, feminist, ethnic, and francophone studies. (1) Francophone studies is the analysis of literature and culture produced in French by authors coming from former French colonies; postcolonial studies represents the theories, histories, and literature...

"Experiences with the white man" Black student narratives.
ABSTRACT/RESUME This paper reports on Black student perspectives on the ways in which racialization is experienced in Canadian society. It is based on ethnographic research undertaken with Black students in two high schools in Alberta. It provides support for the view that an ethnic paradigm that negates...

Feminism(s) past and present.
Most feminists would agree that identifying women's oppression and celebrating women's important and unique contribution to society were the goals of early feminism. They would also agree that over the last three decades, most feminists have grown dissatisfied with largely celebratory and exclusionary ways of viewing women and their relationship...

Narrating Mothers: Theorizing Maternal Subjectivities.
Daly, Brenda O, and Maureen T. Reddy, eds. 1995. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. $ 44.00 hc. $19.50 sc. x+297 pp. Most feminists would agree that identifying women's oppression and celebrating women's important and unique contribution to society were the goals of early feminism. They would also agree that...

The Feminine Sublime: Gender and Excess in Women's Fiction.
Freeman, Barbara Claire. 1995. Berkeley: University of California Press. $35.00 hc. ix+202 pp. Most feminists would agree that identifying women's oppression and celebrating women's important and unique contribution to society were the goals of early feminism. They would also agree that over the last three decades, most feminists have...

Evolutionary analyses of ethnic solidarity: an overview.
The author presents an overview of the contribution that evolutionary theory has made, and can make, to studies of ethnically based social cohesion in the social sciences. INTRODUCTION Evolutionary approaches have a minor though persistent place in the study of ethnicity and nationalism, probably due...

LETTERS.
Your Critic Is an Avowed Enemy of My Book I was dismayed by John Hill's review of The Films of Mike Leigh (Cineaste, Vol. XXVI, No. 2), both for what it told me about Cineaste's editorial process and what it told me about the reviewer. The first...

Black Like Who? ( Recensions).
Black Like Who? Rinaldo Walcott. Toronto: Insomnia Press, 1997. 190 pp. $19.99 pb. Do "Black Canadian" culture and literature exist? If so, how are they to be categorised- as racial, ethnic, multicultural, or national? Is the designation, "Black Canadian," in "Black Canadian culture," author-biographical, interpretative, or aesthetic?...

Recent Work in Critical Theory [*].
This alphabetically arranged bibliography annotates recently published books and is based primarily on materials coming into the Northern Illinois University libraries between August 1998 and August 1999. Inclusion does not mean exclusion in a subsequent Style bibliography or review. Our remarks will simply convey the basic content of each...