Researchers are beginning to examine issues of age, gender, & abuse, but empirical data is lacking. The purpose of this exploratory study was to identify contextual variables, with a particular focus on gender, that may be related to the abuse of older adults. Abuse cases, as described by 121 pr...

Rev. of Ethnic Canada: Identities and Inequalities, by Leo Driedger

Discusses tourism as an extension of the commodification of modern social life under capitalism. Commodifcation is viewed as an all-pervasive characteristic of modern capitalism, involving commodity production & exchange, the mass manipulation of commodity sign, & the standardization of prod...

Rev. of Islands of women and Amazons: representations and realities, by Batya Weinbaum

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A review essay on a book by Neil Bissoondath, Selling Illusions (no publication information available [see listing in IRPS No. 84]). Bissoondath criticizes Canadian multicultural policy for creating a form of cultural apartheid. Here, a sociological perspective is drawn on to argue that multicultura...