Stereotypes emphasizing passivity, docility and uncleanliness all contribute to cultural (mis)understandings of Canadian women of South-Asian background. Such understandings are part of dominant racist discourses, including "bodily" discourses related to health. This book provides insight into notions of health, beauty and negotiated racialized identity among ten young, second-generation South-Asian Canadian women from the Ottawa and Toronto area. Drawing on feminist postcolonialism and poststructuralism as lenses through which conversations are analyzed and interpreted, this book illustrates...
Stereotypes emphasizing passivity, docility and uncleanliness all contribute to cultural (mis)understandings of Canadian women of South-Asian backgrou...