WGS 298
Critical Issues
Fall 2026
Topics
- the Course - Recorded What is Feminist Media Studies?
- From Representation to Participation
- Harvey, Feminist Media Studies
- Zines & Making Media Otherwise
Readings
- Creasap, K. (2014). Zine
- Chang, N. & Rattner, L. E. (2019). Media “Is the Feminist Lens Enough? The
Winter 2026
Readings
- Tuchman, G. Introduction from Hearth and Home
- Hooks, B. – The Oppositional Gaze [available online] Related (Optional) Readings:
- Harvey, A. (2020). Representing gender. Feminist Media Studies. Polity
- DeLauretis, T. Technologies of Gender
- D’Ignazio, C., & Klein, L. (2020). Introduction. Data Feminism. MIT Press
- Perez, C. (2019). The drugs don’t work. In Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (p. 419). Abrams
- Perez, C. C. (2019). Introduction. Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men. Abrams
- Little, N. (Forthcoming). Confronting gender-based violence in Canada: Activists’ intra- community experiences of intervening in rape culture. Violence Against Women, 1–29
- Bates, L. (2021). Men who pray on women. In Men Who Hate Women: From Incels to Pickup Artists. Source Books
- Ging, D. (2023). Tactics of hate: Toxic “creativity” in anti-feminist men’s rights politics. In The Routledge Companion to Gender, Media and Violence. Routledge
- Harvey, A. (2020). Gendered media work. Feminist Media Studies. Polity
- Gill, R. (2019). Surveillance is a feminist issue. In The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Feminism (pp. 148–161). Routledge
- Pozner et al. (2022). Empowerment through participatory surveillance? Menstruation and fertility self-tracking apps as postfeminist biopedagogies. In Gender, Sex, and Tech! (Chapter 8)
- Little, N. (2025). Social media ghosts. The Conversation Canada
- Noble, S. (2018). Introduction. Algorithms of Oppression
- Bates, L. (2025). Introduction to The New Age of Sexism: How AI and Emerging Technologies are Reinventing Misogyny. Sourcebooks
- Harari, Y. (2025). Nexus
- Little, N., Berge, P., Smaltzer, M., & Divon, T. (Forthcoming). TITLE
- Meikle, G. (2019). Introduction. Deepfakes
- Bates, L. (2025). Metaverse Chapter. The New Age of Sexism: How AI and Emerging Technologies are Reinventing Misogyny. Sourcebooks
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
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- No textbook required according to this source. Partial automated extraction.