WOME 1100
Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies
Fall 2025–Winter 2026; YDE · Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies
Topics
- Feminisms, intersectionality and feminist research
- Social construction of gender, masculinity and sexuality
- Race, colonialism, the Indian Act and Indigenous women’s resistance
- Bodies, beauty, health and reproductive rights
- Gender-based violence and sex workers’ rights
- Gender, economics, marketing and global inequalities
- Feminist social movements and feminist futures
Readings
- Required: Hobbs, Margaret, and Carla Rice. Gender and Women’s Studies in Canada: Critical Terrain. 2nd edition. Women’s Press, 2018.
- Additional course materials: Additional readings, journal articles, book chapters, videos and other media are provided through the course site; the syllabus has a detailed schedule of assigned material.
Fall 2025–Winter 2026; YA · Introduction to GWS: Madonna to Madonna
Topics
- Feminisms, diversity, intersectionality and inequality
- Construction of sex, gender, sexuality and gendered identities
- Colonialism and Indigenous women’s resistance and resurgence
- Cultural representations, desire and body regulation
- Politics of health, reproductive rights and gender violence
- Globalization, migration, citizenship, poverty and homelessness
- Feminist and social justice movements; transnational feminist futures
Readings
- Required: Hobbs, Margaret, and Carla Rice. Gender and Women’s Studies in Canada: Critical Terrain. 2nd edition. Women’s Press, 2018.
- Additional course materials: Additional readings, journal articles, book chapters, videos and other media are provided through the course site; the syllabus has a detailed schedule of assigned material.
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- syllabus ↗Fall 2025–Winter 2026; YDE
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- syllabus ↗Fall 2025–Winter 2026; YA
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