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SOCI 3818

Women in the North

0.5 credits · Undergraduate

Winter 2026

Topics

  • the interplay of gender, race, ethnicity, and class on the macro
  • during colonization and today
  • women in the Arctic and their sisters in other countries
  • women Pioneers who settled the North and those who continue to make advancements
  • in the North today
  • women in the gold rush and women in single-industry towns
  • immigrant women past and present
  • what women have brought to and continue to bring
  • to community in the North
  • women and education
  • “Diamond Lils”, those who stepped outside traditional roles), gender, sexuality
  • north, aboriginal styles of governance, and economics. Social location is an important
  • component of our discussion of Women in the North
  • Important Note: This is a web course. This means the whole course is online. You
  • answer and links which you are to open and read or videos to watch. The exams
  • Explore the complexity of life in the North
  • Examine how intersections of race, gender, gender identity, ethnicity, and class impact
  • women in the North

Readings

  • Required: Kechniem Margaret and Marge Reitsma-Street. 1996. Changing Lives Women in Northern Ontario. Toronto: Dundurn Press. (LU bookstore prices: print, e- version).
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