Summary Of A Fair Country By Rachel Walker

Within Canada and Canadian studies there are many different aspects that issues can be analyzed. With many different issues happening now it is important to understand these viewpoint and lenses used to analyze. One way an issue can be looked at is through a feminist viewpoint. This is an important lens to consider when wanting to understand how women issues play out in Canada. This idea is noted in Rachel Walker’s article “A Fair Country A Feminist and Postcolonial Reading of Canada’s Colonial Encounter” which is a response piece to John Ralston Saul’s paper “A fair Country: Telling Truths About Canada”. Walker explores what Ralston Saul’s paper and response to in from a feminist viewpoint. This papers focus is going to be on how Canada is

This article will also be analyzed to understand what evidence Walker uses and if this helps when trying to prove her point. Then it will explore the methodology she employed and if there is a basis or faulty reason in the article. As well as if this article as a whole was able to persuade the reader based on the argument about women in Canada. Rachel Walker writes a compelling response article to John Ralston Saul about how his article dismissed the feminist viewpoint on a fair country. Walker starts off her article talking about Ralston Saul’s article and the claims he has made (Walker, 117). She continues on to give the reader a surface understanding about these claims and her viewpoint on them (Walker, 118). From there on her article is split into three sections that all have sub headings. The first section of her article is “Feminists Theorize The Nation”; this section is talking about the roles of women in constructing a nation and how they are growing the population (Walker, 120). This section continues on with the focus on women in a nation and how they are breeders and cultural carriers of the nation (Walker, 120). Then next sub heading of her article is “Nationalism and Postcolonial Theory”, in this section Walker talks about the idea of the stranger or other and how we should

When reviewing Walker’s article and understanding her as a professor it is clear that there can be a bias present in her writing. When reading through Walker’s paper her response to Saul’s article clearly shows that she has a passion for gender and women studies. Walker is a professor who teaches gender and women studies as well as philosophy. This then means that there will be some bias present in her writing because she has a feminist viewpoint on this issue. When some people read her article that are not passionate about this issue one might think she only has this viewpoint because of her background. Therefore creating this bias on how she talks about feminist issues. When looking into if Walker was able to persuade the reader it is clear that with the evidence she gives along with her arguments made she was able to get the reader thinking about this issue. After reading the article in full a reader could be persuaded to take her side on this issue because of how well she bring in evidence from other scholars and how she has strategically put her arguments along side Saul’s articles in order to persuade the reader into thinking about what she has said. Walker ultimately has brought up an argument about an issue that makes one think about how gender is important within Canada. Overall, with Walkers writing and a bias that is present because of her passion for gender and