Vanaja Dhruvarajan

Teaching and Research Interests

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

Selected Courses Developed and Taught

• Gender, Race, and Knowledge Production in Higher Education
• Knowledge Monopolies, Anti-racism and Higher Education
• Gender and Race in the 21st Century
• Women of Colour in Canada
• South Asian Women: Change, Resistance and Adaptation

Selected Publications: Books

• 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.)

Selected Publications: Papers Refereed

• 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

Selected Publications: Book Chapters

• 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

Awards

• YM/YWCA Woman of Distinction Awards, 1994
• Fellowship in United College, 2004