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GENDER, RACE AND NATION: A Global Perspective, Co-authored with Jill Vickers. Toronto: University of Toronto Press<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1990 Women and Wellbeing. (Ed). Montreal: McGill-Queens<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1989 Hindu Women and The Power of Ideology. Granby, MA: Bergin and Garvey<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1989 Hindu Women and The Power of Ideology. Indian Edition. New Delhi: Vistaar Publications (A division of Sage Publications of India PVT Ltd.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"selected-publications-papers-refereed\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Selected Publications: Papers Refereed<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>2000 &#8220;People of Colour and National Identity in Canada&#8221; in Journal of Canadian Studies Vol 35, No.2<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1996 \u201cHinduism, Empowerment of Women and Development in India\u201d in Women and Work in South Asia: Contemporary Perspectives, Special Issue of Labour, Capital and Society. Vol. 29: 1&amp;2, pp.16-40<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1993 \u201cEthnic Cultural Retention and Transmission among first generation Hindu Asian Indians in a Canadian prairie city.\u201d The Journal of Comparative Family Studies. Vol. XXIV<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1992 \u201cConjugal Power among first generation Hindu Asian Indians in Canada.\u201d The International Journal of Sociology of the Family. Vol. 22<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1990 \u201cReligious Ideology, Hindu Women, and Development in India\u201d in Journal of Social Issues, Vol. 46, no.3<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"selected-publications-book-chapters\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Selected Publications: Book Chapters<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>2002 &#8220;Feminism and Resistance to Globalization of Capitalism.&#8221; A Chapter in Book, GLOBAL SHAPING AND ITS ALTERNATIVES, edited by Yildiz Atasoy and William Carroll. Toronto: Garamond Press<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2004 &#8220;Colonialism and Capitalism: Continuities and Variations in Strategies of Domination and Oppression.&#8221; A chapter in a Book TEACHING AS Activism: Equity meets Environmentalism, edited by Peggy Tripp and Linda Muzzin. Montreal: McGill-Queens<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2003 &#8220;Second Generation Indo-Canadians: Change, Resistance and Adaptation.&#8221; In Fractured Identity: The Indian Diaspora in Canada, edited by Sushma J. Varma and Radhika Seshan. New Delhi: Rawat Publications<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1997 \u201cMy Year as Ruth Wynn Woodward Chair in Women\u2019s Studies: Addressing Systemic Racism and Sexism\u201d in D. Hearne and M.L. Lefebvre (eds.), Equity and Justice. Montreal: CWSA<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1997 \u201cThe Chilly Climate in BC Universities\u201d in D. Hearne and M.L. Lefebvre (eds.), Equity and Justice. Montreal: CWSA<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1995 \u201cHindu Indo-Canadian Families\u201d in Voices: Essays in Canadian Families, edited by M. Lynn. Toronto: Nelson<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1994 \u201cHindu Asian Indian Women, Multiculturalism and Reproductive Technoligies\u201d in Racial Minorities Medicine and Health, edited by B.S. Boloria and R. Boloria. Halifax: Fernwood<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Reprinted in U. Parameswaran (ed.) Quilting the Canon. Toronto: Sister Vision. 1996<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1991 \u201cWomen of Colour in Canada: Diversity of Experiences\u201d in Women Changing Academe. Edited by S. Kirby, et al. Winnipeg: Sororal Publishing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"awards\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Awards<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>YM\/YWCA Woman of Distinction Awards, 1994<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fellowship in United College, 2004<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8002,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Vanaja","cu_people_last_name":"Dhruvarajan","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-226","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Adjunct professor in WOMN and Sociology","cu_people_degree":"B.A. (Mysore); M.A. (Chicago);  Ph.D. (Chicago)","cu_building":false,"cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"vdhruvar@connect.carleton.ca","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12631,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/226\/revisions\/12631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=226"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}