Dhruvarajan, Vanaja

Adjunct professor in WOMN and Sociology

Globalization, Family and Socialization, Gender, Anti-Racism and Knowledge Monopolies

2002. GENDER, RACE AND NATION: A Global Perspective, Co-authored with Jill Vickers. Toronto: University of Toronto Press
1990 Women and Wellbeing. (Ed). Montreal: McGill-Queens
1989 Hindu Women and The Power of Ideology. Granby, MA: Bergin and Garvey
1989 Hindu Women and The Power of Ideology. Indian Edition. New Delhi: Vistaar Publications (A division of Sage Publications of India PVT Ltd.)

2000 “People of Colour and National Identity in Canada” in Journal of Canadian Studies Vol 35, No.2
1996 “Hinduism, Empowerment of Women and Development in India” in Women and Work in South Asia: Contemporary Perspectives, Special Issue of Labour, Capital and Society. Vol. 29: 1&2, pp.16-40
1993 “Ethnic Cultural Retention and Transmission among first generation Hindu Asian Indians in a Canadian prairie city.” The Journal of Comparative Family Studies. Vol. XXIV
1992 “Conjugal Power among first generation Hindu Asian Indians in Canada.” The International Journal of Sociology of the Family. Vol. 22
1990 “Religious Ideology, Hindu Women, and Development in India” in Journal of Social Issues, Vol. 46, no.3

2002 “Feminism and Resistance to Globalization of Capitalism.” A Chapter in Book, GLOBAL SHAPING AND ITS ALTERNATIVES, edited by Yildiz Atasoy and William Carroll. Toronto: Garamond Press
2004 “Colonialism and Capitalism: Continuities and Variations in Strategies of Domination and Oppression.” A chapter in a Book TEACHING AS Activism: Equity meets Environmentalism, edited by Peggy Tripp and Linda Muzzin. Montreal: McGill-Queens
2003 “Second Generation Indo-Canadians: Change, Resistance and Adaptation.” In Fractured Identity: The Indian Diaspora in Canada, edited by Sushma J. Varma and Radhika Seshan. New Delhi: Rawat Publications
1997 “My Year as Ruth Wynn Woodward Chair in Women’s Studies: Addressing Systemic Racism and Sexism” in D. Hearne and M.L. Lefebvre (eds.), Equity and Justice. Montreal: CWSA
1997 “The Chilly Climate in BC Universities” in D. Hearne and M.L. Lefebvre (eds.), Equity and Justice. Montreal: CWSA
1995 “Hindu Indo-Canadian Families” in Voices: Essays in Canadian Families, edited by M. Lynn. Toronto: Nelson
1994 “Hindu Asian Indian Women, Multiculturalism and Reproductive Technoligies” in Racial Minorities Medicine and Health, edited by B.S. Boloria and R. Boloria. Halifax: Fernwood
Reprinted in U. Parameswaran (ed.) Quilting the Canon. Toronto: Sister Vision. 1996
1991 “Women of Colour in Canada: Diversity of Experiences” in Women Changing Academe. Edited by S. Kirby, et al. Winnipeg: Sororal Publishing