WOME 5101
Feminist Theories and Methods
Winter 2026
Readings
- Required: Squires, Feminisms (Oxford University Press, 1997). The library has a copy of this book. It can be purchased as an e-reader for and is free for those with Kindle or Amazon. Used print
- Required: “Harriet Taylor Mill”, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Harriet Taylor Mill (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Spring 2006 Edition).
- Required: Kathleen Gerson, “Changing Lives, Resistant Institutions: A New Generation Negotiates Gender, Work, and Family”, Sociological Forum 24 (4) (2009), 735-753.
- Required: “Emma Goldman”: Emma Goldman: Early Life, Work and Death of a Rebellious Anarchist | History Cooperative.
- Required: Heidi Hartmann, “The family as the locus of gender, class and political struggle: the example of housework”, Signs 6 (3) (1981), 366-394.
- Required: Shulamith Firestone, “The Culture of Romance”, in Carole McCann and Seung-Kyung Kim, eds., Feminist Theory Reader: Local and Global Perspectives (Routledge, 2013), 123-128.
- Required: Marilyn Frye, “Oppression”, The Politics of Reality (The Crossing Press, 1983), 1-16.
- Required: Carol Gilligan, “In A Different Voice”, in Sandra Kemp and Judith Squires, eds., Feminisms (Oxford University Press, 1997), 146
- Required: Nancy Harstock, “The Feminist Standpoint”, in Sandra Kemp and Judith Squires, eds., Feminisms (Oxford University Press, 1997), 152-160.
- Required: Breanne Fahs, “The Urgent Need for Radical Feminism Today”, Signs 49 (2) (2024), 479-497.
- Required: Denise Riley, “Am I That Name? Feminism and the Category of ‘Women’”, in Sandra Kemp and Judith Squires, eds., Feminisms (Oxford University Press, 1997), 241-246.
- Required: Diana Fuss, “The ‘Risk’ of Essence”, in Sandra Kemp and Judith Squires, eds., Feminisms (Oxford University Press, 1997), 250
- Required: Judith Butler, “Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory”, in Carole McCann and Seung-Kyung Kim, eds., Feminist Theory Reader: Local and Global Perspectives (Routledge, 2013), 462-473.
- Required: Lena Gunnarson, “A Defense of the Category ‘Women’”, Feminist Theory 12 (1) (2011), 23-37.
- Required: Sherene Razack, “Gendered Violence and Spacialized Justice”, Canadian Journal of Law and Society 15 (2) (2000), 91-130.
- Required: Verna St. Denis, “Feminism is for Everybody: Aboriginal Women, Feminism, and Diversity”, in Joyce Green, eds., Making Space for Indigenous Feminism (Fernwood Press, 2017), 33-52.
- Required: Tracey Lindberg, “Not My Sister: What Feminists Can Learn about Sisterhood from Indigenous Women”, Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 16 (2) (2004), 342-352.
- Required: Gina Starblanket, “Transforming the Gender Divide? Deconstructing Femininity and Masculinity in Indigenous Politics”
- Required: in Turbulent Times, eds., Fiona MacDonald and Alexandra Dobrowolsky (UTP, 2020), 121-137.
- Required: “Sojourner Truth”: The Remarkable Untold Story of Sojourner Truth | History | Smithsonian Magazine.
- Required: Kimberle Crenshaw, “Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics and Violence Against Women of Color”, Stanford Law Review 43 (6) (1991), 1241-1299.
- Required: Patricia Hill Collins, “Mammies, Matriarchs and Other Controlling Images”, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, consciousness and the politics of empowerment (Routledge, 2000 and 2009), 76-107.
- Required: Eziwanne Toochukwu Odozor, “A Love Ethic for Black Feminisms”, Hypatia 37 (2) (2022), 241-256.
- Required: Maria Lugones and Elizabeth Spelman, “Have We Got a Theory for You?: Cultural Imperialism and the Demand for ‘the woman’s voice”, Women’s Studies International Forum 6 (6) (1983), 573
- Required: Isabelle Gunning, “Arrogant Perception, World Travelling and Multicultural Feminism: The Case of Female Genital Surgeries”, Columbia Human Rights Law Review 23 (2) (1992), 189-248.
- Required: Chandra Talpade Mohanty, “Under Western Eyes”, in Sandra Kemp and Judith Squires, eds., Feminisms (Oxford University Press, 1997), 91-96.
- Required: Jen Roth and Lori Chambers, “Transversal and Postmodern Feminist Praxis in Everyday Politics”, Atlantis: Critical Studies in
- Required: Gender, Culture and Social Justice 40 (1) (2019), 1-17.
- Required: Lesbian, Queer, and Transgender Theory
- Required: Adrienne Rich, “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence”, in Sandra Kemp and Judith Squires, eds., Feminisms (Oxford University Press, 1997), 320-325.
- Required: Charlotte Bunch, “Lesbians in Revolt”, in Carole McCann and Seung-Kyung Kim, eds., Feminist Theory Reader: Local and Global Perspectives (Routledge, 2013), 129-133.
- Required: Heather Davis, “The Difference of Queer”, Canadian Woman Studies/les cahiers de la femme 24 (2/3) (2005), 23-26.
- Required: Riki Anne Wilchins, “What Does it Cost to Tell the Truth?” in The Transgender Studies Reader, Susan Stryker and Steven Whittle, eds., (New York: Routledge, 2006), 547-551.
- Required: Lori Chambers, “Unprincipled Exclusions: Transgender
- Required: Jurisprudence, Feminist Theory and Kimberly Nixon”, Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 19 (2) (2007), 305-334.
- Required: Iris Young, “Throwing Like a Girl”, Human Studies 3 (1980), 137
- Required: Kathy Davis, “Reclaiming Women’s Bodies: Colonialist Trope or Critical Epistemology?”, in Carole McCann and Seung-Kyung Kim, eds., Feminist Theory Reader: Local and Global Perspectives (Routledge, 2013), 502-516.
- Required: Janell Hobson, Venus in the Dark: Blackness and Beauty in Popular Culture (New York: Routledge, 2005), 87-112.
- Required: Judith Hamera, “Weighty Anti-Feminism, Weighty Contradictions: Anti-Fat Coverage and Invective in US Right-Wing Populist Outlets”, Women’s Studies 48 (2) (2019), 146-166.
- Required: Susan Wendell, “Feminism, Disability, and the Transcendence of the Body”, The Rejected Body (New York: Routledge, 1996), 165
- Required: Andrea Dworkin, “Pornography”, in Sandra Kemp and Judith Squires, eds., Feminisms (Oxford University Press, 1997), 325
- Required: Catharine Mackinnon, “Toward a Feminist Theory of the State”, in Sandra Kemp and Judith Squires, eds., Feminisms (Oxford University Press, 1997), 351-357.
- Required: Carol Vance, “Pleasure and Danger: Toward a Politics of Sexuality”, in Sandra Kemp and Judith Squires, eds., Feminisms (Oxford University Press, 1997), 327-334.
- Required: Angela Harris, “Race and Essentialism in Feminist Legal Theory”, Stanford Law Review 42 (3) (1990), 581-616.
- Required: Tracey Lindberg, Priscilla Campeau and Maria Campbell, “Indigenous Women and Sexual Assault in Canada”, in Elizabeth Sheehy, ed., Sexual Assault in Canada: Law, Legal Practice and Women’s Activism (University of Ottawa Press, 2012), 87-109.
- Required: Feminism, Science, and the Cyborg
- Required: Sandra Harding, “Is There A Feminist Method?”, in Sandra Kemp and Judith Squires, eds., Feminisms (Oxford University Press
- Required: Emily Martin, “The Egg and the Sperm: How Science has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles”, Signs 16 (3) (1991), 485-501.
- Required: Sarah Franklin, “Fetal Fascinations: New Dimensions to the Medical-Scientific Construction of Fetal Personhood”, in Sandra Kemp and Judith Squires, eds., Feminisms (Oxford University Press, 1997), 487-492.
- Required: Donna Haraway, “A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s”, in Sandra Kemp and Judith Squires, eds., Feminisms (Oxford University Press, 1997), 474
- Required: Jude Browne, “AI and Structural Injustice: A Feminist Perspective”, in Jude Browne ed., Feminist AI: Critical Perspectives on
- Required: Algorithms, Data and Intelligent Machines (Oxford University Press, 2023), 328-346.
- Required: Carolyn Merchant, “Women and Ecology”, in Sandra Kemp and Judith Squires, eds., Feminisms (Oxford University Press, 1997), 468-472.
- Required: Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva. “Ecofeminism”, in Sandra Kemp and Judith Squires, eds., Feminisms (Oxford University Press
- Required: Josephine Donovan, “Animal Rights and Feminist Theory”, Signs 15 (2) (winter 1990), 350-375.
- Required: Karen Warren, “The Power and Promise of Ecological Feminism”, Environmental Ethics 12 (2) (1990), 125-146.
- Required: Native Women’s Association of Canada, “Water Carriers”: Water Carriers Project | Native Women's Association of Canada (NWAC).
Fall 2025
Readings
- Required: Feminist Research Practice: A Primer, Edited by Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber, soft cover, digital
- Required: Research as Resistance: Revisiting Critical, Indigenous, and Anti-Oppressive Approaches, 2nd Edition, Edited by Susan Strega and Leslie Brown, soft cover
Winter 2025
Readings
- Required: “Harriet Taylor Mill”, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Harriet Taylor Mill (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Spring 2006 Edition).
- Required: Kathleen Gerson, “Changing Lives, Resistant Institutions: A New Generation Negotiates Gender, Work, and Family”, Sociological Forum 24 (4) (2009), 735-753.
- Required: “Emma Goldman”: Emma Goldman: Early Life, Work and Death of a Rebellious Anarchist | History Cooperative.
- Required: Heidi Hartmann, “The family as the locus of gender, class and political struggle: the example of housework”, Signs 6 (3) (1981), 366-394.
- Required: Shulamith Firestone, “The Culture of Romance”, in Carole McCann and Seung- Kyung Kim, eds., Feminist Theory Reader: Local and Global Perspectives (Routledge, 2013), 123-128.
- Required: Marilyn Frye, “Oppression”, The Politics of Reality (The Crossing Press, 1983), 1-16.
- Required: Carol Gilligan, “In A Different Voice”, in Sandra Kemp and Judith Squires, eds., Feminisms (Oxford University Press, 1997), 146-152.
- Required: Nancy Harstock, “The Feminist Standpoint”, in Sandra Kemp and Judith Squires, eds., Feminisms (Oxford University Press, 1997), 152-160.
- Required: Breanne Fahs, “The Urgent Need for Radical Feminism Today”, Signs 49 (2) (2024), 479-497.
- Required: Denise Riley, “Am I That Name? Feminism and the Category of ‘Women’”, in Sandra Kemp and Judith Squires, eds., Feminisms (Oxford University Press, 1997), 241-246.
- Required: Diana Fuss, “The ‘Risk’ of Essence”, in Sandra Kemp and Judith Squires, eds., Feminisms (Oxford University Press, 1997), 250-258.
- Required: Judith Butler, “Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory”, in Carole McCann and Seung-Kyung Kim, eds., Feminist Theory Reader: Local and Global Perspectives (Routledge, 2013), 462-473.
- Required: Lena Gunnarson, “A Defense of the Category ‘Women’”, Feminist Theory 12 (1)
- Required: “Sojourner Truth”: The Remarkable Untold Story of Sojourner Truth | History | Smithsonian Magazine.
- Required: Kimberle Crenshaw, “Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics and Violence Against Women of Color”, Stanford Law Review 43 (6) (1991), 1241-1299.
- Required: Patricia Hill Collins, “Mammies, Matriarchs and Other Controlling Images”, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, consciousness and the politics of empowerment (Routledge, 2000 and 2009), 76-107.
- Required: Eziwanne Toochukwu Odozor, “A Love Ethic for Black Feminisms”, Hypatia 37 (2)
- Required: Sherene Razack, “Gendered Violence and Spacialized Justice”, Canadian Journal of Law and Society 15 (2) (2000), 91-130.
- Required: Verna St. Denis, “Feminism is for Everybody: Aboriginal Women, Feminism, and Diversity”, in Joyce Green, eds., Making Space for Indigenous Feminism (Fernwood Press, 2017), 33-52.
- Required: Tracey Lindberg, “Not My Sister: What Feminists Can Learn about Sisterhood from Indigenous Women”, Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 16 (2) (2004), 342
- Required: Gina Starblanket, “Transforming the Gender Divide? Deconstructing Femininity and Masculinity in Indigenous Politics”, in Turbulent Times, eds., Fiona MacDonald and Alexandra Dobrowolsky (UTP, 2020), 121-137.
- Required: Maria Lugones and Elizabeth Spelman, “Have We Got a Theory for You?: Cultural Imperialism and the Demand for ‘the woman’s voice”, Women’s Studies International Forum 6 (6) (1983), 573-581.
- Required: Isabelle Gunning, “Arrogant Perception, World Travelling and Multicultural Feminism: The Case of Female Genital Surgeries”, Columbia Human Rights Law Review 23 (2) (1992), 189-248.
- Required: Chandra Talpade Mohanty, “Under Western Eyes”, in Sandra Kemp and Judith Squires, eds., Feminisms (Oxford University Press, 1997), 91-96.
- Required: Jen Roth and Lori Chambers, “Transversal and Postmodern Feminist Praxis in Everyday Politics”, Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture and Social Justice 40 (1) (2019), 1-17.
- Required: Lesbian, Queer, and Transgender Theory
- Required: Adrienne Rich, “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence”, in Sandra Kemp and Judith Squires, eds., Feminisms (Oxford University Press, 1997), 320-325.
- Required: Charlotte Bunch, “Lesbians in Revolt”, in Carole McCann and Seung-Kyung Kim, eds., Feminist Theory Reader: Local and Global Perspectives (Routledge, 2013), 129-133.
- Required: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, “Introduction: Axiomatic”, Epistemology of the Closet (University of California, 1990), 1-22.
- Required: Riki Anne Wilchins, “What Does it Cost to Tell the Truth?” in The Transgender Studies Reader, Susan Stryker and Steven Whittle, eds., (New York: Routledge
- Required: Lori Chambers, “Unprincipled Exclusions: Transgender Jurisprudence, Feminist Theory and Kimberly Nixon”, Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 19 (2)
- Required: Julie Nagoshie and Stephan/ie Brzuzy, “Transgender Theorizing: Embodying Research and Practice”, Affilia 25 (4) (2010), 431-443.
- Required: Iris Young, “Throwing Like a Girl”, Human Studies 3 (1980), 137-156.
- Required: Susan Bordo, “Normalisation and Resistance in the Era of the Image”, in Sandra Kemp and Judith Squires, eds., Feminisms (Oxford University Press, 1997), 446-451.
- Required: Kathy Davis, “Reclaiming Women’s Bodies: Colonialist Trope or Critical Epistemology?”, in Carole McCann and Seung-Kyung Kim, eds., Feminist Theory Reader: Local and Global Perspectives (Routledge, 2013), 502-516.
- Required: Janell Hobson, Venus in the Dark: Blackness and Beauty in Popular Culture (New York: Routledge, 2005), 87-112.
- Required: Judith Hamera, “Weighty Anti-Feminism, Weighty Contradictions: Anti-Fat Coverage and Invective in US Right-Wing Populist Outlets”, Women’s Studies 48 (2)
- Required: Susan Wendell, “Feminism, Disability, and the Transcendence of the Body”, The Rejected Body (New York: Routledge, 1996), 165-181.
- Required: Andrea Dworkin, “Pornography”, in Sandra Kemp and Judith Squires, eds., Feminisms (Oxford University Press, 1997), 325-226.
- Required: Carol Vance, “Pleasure and Danger: Toward a Politics of Sexuality”, in Sandra Kemp and Judith Squires, eds., Feminisms (Oxford University Press, 1997), 327-334.
- Required: Liz Kelly, “A Central Issue: Sexual Violence and Feminist Theory”, in Sandra Kemp and Judith Squires, eds., Feminisms (Oxford University Press, 1997), 345-351.
- Required: Catharine Mackinnon, “Toward a Feminist Theory of the State”, in Sandra Kemp and Judith Squires, eds., Feminisms (Oxford University Press, 1997), 351-357.
- Required: Mary Anne Franks, “I Am/I Am Not: On Angela’s Harris’ Race and Essentialism in Feminist Legal Theory”: I Am/I Am Not: <em>On Angela Harris's Race and Essentialism in Feminist Legal Theory</em> (miami.edu).
- Required: Feminism, Science, and the Cyborg
- Required: Sandra Harding, “Is There A Feminist Method?”, in Sandra Kemp and Judith Squires, eds., Feminisms (Oxford University Press, 1997), 160-170.
- Required: Emily Martin, “The Egg and the Sperm: How Science has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles”, Signs 16 (3) (1991), 485-501.
- Required: Sarah Franklin, “Fetal Fascinations: New Dimensions to the Medical-Scientific Construction of Fetal Personhood”, in Sandra Kemp and Judith Squires, eds., Feminisms (Oxford University Press, 1997), 487-492.
- Required: Donna Haraway, “A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s”, in Sandra Kemp and Judith Squires, eds., Feminisms (Oxford University Press, 1997), 474-482.
- Required: Jude Browne, “AI and Structural Injustice: A Feminist Perspective”, in Jude Browne ed., Feminist AI: Critical Perspectives on Algorithms, Data and Intelligent Machines (Oxford University Press, 2023), 328-346.
- Required: Carolyn Merchant, “Women and Ecology”, in Sandra Kemp and Judith Squires, eds., Feminisms (Oxford University Press, 1997), 468-472.
- Required: Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva. “Ecofeminism”, in Sandra Kemp and Judith Squires, eds., Feminisms (Oxford University Press, 1997), 497-503.
- Required: Josephine Donovan, “Animal Rights and Feminist Theory”, Signs 15 (2) (winter
- Required: Karen Warren, “The Power and Promise of Ecological Feminism”, Environmental Ethics 12 (2) (1990), 125-146.
- Required: Native Women’s Association of Canada, “Water Carriers”: Water Carriers Project | Native Women's Association of Canada (NWAC).
Winter 2024 · Theories and Methods in Women’s Studies: Theories
Topics
- Foundations of feminist theory
- Liberal and standpoint feminisms
- Socialist and Marxist feminisms
- Radical and cultural feminisms
- Black feminisms
- Indigenous feminisms
- Transnational and transversal feminisms
- Postmodernism
- Lesbian identity and queer politics
- Feminism, science and cyborg theory
- Ecofeminism
Readings
- Required: Excerpt from Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: wollstonecraft/.
- Required: Kathleen Gerson, “Changing Lives, Resistant Institutions: A New Generation Negotiates Gender, Work, and Family”, Sociological Forum 24 (4) (2009), 735-753.
- Required: Dorothy Smith, “Women’s Standpoint: Embodied Knowledge versus the Ruling Relations”, Institutional Ethnography, (2005), 7-26.
- Required: Hyde Park Chapter, Chicago Women’s Liberation Union, “History is a Weapon; Socialist Feminism: A Strategy for the Women’s Movement: www.historyisaweapon.org/defcon1/chisocfem.html.
- Required: Heidi Hartmann, “The family as the locus of gender, class and political struggle: the example of housework”, Signs 6 (3) (1981), 366-394.
- Required: Nakano Glenn, Evelyn. “The Social Construction and Institutionalization of Gender and Race: An Integrative Framework”, in Myr Marx Ferree, Judith Lorder and Beth Hess, eds., Revisioning Gender (SAGE, 1999), 17-23.
- Required: Excerpt from Shulamith Firestone, The Dialectic of Sex: sex.htm.
- Required: Marilyn Frye, “Oppression”, The Politics of Reality (The Crossing Press, 1983), 1-16.
- Required: Carol Gilligan, “In A Different Voice: Women’s Conceptions of Self and of Morality”, Harvard Educational Review 47 (4) (1977), 481-517.
- Required: Susan Hawthorne, “Land, Bodies, and Knowledge: Biocolonialism of Plants, Indigenous Peoples, Women, and People with Disabilities,” Signs 32 (2) (2007), 314
- Required: Alison Bailey, “Mothering, Diversity, and Peace Politics”, Hypatia 9 (2) (2020), 188
- Required: Angela Davis, Women, Race and Class (Knopf, 1981, reprint 2011).
- Required: bell hooks, “Black Women: Shaping Feminist Theory”, Feminist Theory: From Margins to Center (New York: Routledge, 1984), 1-15.
- Required: Patricia Hill Collins, “On Violence, Intersectionality and Transversal Politics”, Ethnic and Racial Studies 40 (9) (2017), 1460-1473.
- Required: Eziwanne Toochukwu Odozor, “A Love Ethic for Black Feminisms”, Hypatia 37 (2)
- Required: Gina Starblanket, “Being Indigenous Feminists”, in Joyce Green, ed., Making Space for Indigenous Feminism, (Fernwood Publishing, 2017), 21-41.
- Required: Emma Larocque, “My Hometown Northern Canada, South Africa”, in Joyce Green, ed., Making Space for Indigenous Feminism, (Fernwood Publishing, 2017), 63-68.
- Required: Verna St. Denis, “Feminism is for Everybody: Aboriginal Women, Feminism, and Diversity”, in Joyce Green, Making Space for Indigenous Feminism (Fernwood Publishing, 2017), 42-59.
- Required: Tracey Lindberg, “Not My Sister: What Feminists Can Learn about Sisterhood from Indigenous Women”, Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 16 (2) (2004), 342
- Required: Maria Lugones and Elizabeth Spelman, “Have We Got a Theory for You?: Cultural Imperialism and the Demand for ‘the woman’s voice”, Women’s Studies International Forum 6 (6) (1983), 573-581.
- Required: Chandra Talpade Mohanty, “Cartographies of Struggle: Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism”, Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity (Duke University Press, 2003), 43-84.
- Required: Jen Roth and Lori Chambers, “Transversal and Postmodern Feminist Praxis in Everyday Politics”, Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture and Social Justice 40 (1) (2019), 1-17.
- Required: Denise Riley, “Am I That Name? Feminism and the Category of ‘Women’ in Stephen
- Required: Heath, Colin McCabe and Denise Riley, eds. The Language, Discourse, Society Reader (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1988), 138.
- Required: Joan Scott, “Deconstructing Equality-Versus-Difference: or, The Uses of Poststructuralist Theory in Feminism”, in Wendy Kolmar and Frances Bartkowski, (eds), Feminist Theory: A Reader (London: Mayfield Publishing Company, 2000), 414-423.
- Required: Lena Gunnarson, “A Defense of the Category ‘Women’”, Feminist Theory 12 (1)
- Required: (2011), 23-37 (Radical response to postmodernism).
- Required: Adrienne Rich, “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence”, F 320-325.
- Required: Judith Butler, “Introduction”, Bodies that Matter (Routledge, 1993), 1-23.
- Required: Lori Chambers, “Unprincipled Exclusions: Transgender Jurisprudence, Feminist Theory and Kimberly Nixon”, Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 19 (2)
- Required: Julie Nagoshie and Stephan/ie Brzuzy, “Transgender Theorizing: Embodying Research and Practice”, Affilia 25 (4) (2010), 431-443.
- Required: Feminism, Science, and the Cyborg
- Required: Sandra Harding, “From the Woman Question in Science to the Science Question in Feminism”, in Wendy Kolmar and Frances Bartkowski, Feminist Theory: A Reader, 389-398.
- Required: Donna Haraway, “A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s”, Socialist Review 80 (15.2) (1985), 92.
- Required: Jessie Daniels, “Rethinking Cyberfeminism(s): Race, Gender, and Embodiment,” Women’s Studies Quarterly, 37 (1/2) (2009), 101-124.
- Required: Anita Harris, “Young Women, Late Modern Politics and the Participatory Possibilities of Online Cultures”, Journal of Youth Studies 11 (5) (2008), 481-495.
- Required: Carolyn Merchant, “Chapter 1: A garden planet”, Reinventing Eden: The fate of nature in western culture (New York: Routledge, 2003), 1-9.
- Required: Vandana Shiva, “Democracy Now” (2013) (video):
- Required: Karen Warren, “The Power and Promise of Ecological Feminism”, Environmental Ethics 12 (2) (1990), 125-146.
- Required: D. McGregor, “Anishnaabe-kwe, traditional knowledge and water protection”, Canadian Woman Studies 26 (3-4) (2008), 25-30.
- Required: H. Hunter, “The birth of an eco-mom: Cancer, feminism and the environment”, Journal of Motherhood Initiative 2 (2011), 37-51.
Fall 2023
Topics
- Introductions and Overview: Feminist Epistemology
- How we ‘do’ research matters - a conversation across disciplinary
- Social Location and Decolonizing Research
- – Ethics Workshop
- Presentations of 1st research exercise
- Speech and Silence in Feminist Research
- Literary, Textual and Discourse Analyses
- Participatory Action and Lessons from Research with Vulnerable
- What we See and what we don’t See: Ethnographic and Visual Analysis
- Practices and Politics of Archiving, Interpretation and Representation
Readings
- Required: copy of the week’s reading(s) for discussion, and that you’ve prepared the assignments for each week.
- Hesse-Biber, Sharlene Nagy (2011) “Feminist Research. Exploring, Interrogating, and Transforming the Interconnections of Epistemology, Methodology, and Method.” In S. Hesse-Biber, ed. The Handbook of Feminist Research, 2nd edition. London Sage, pp. 2-26. [D2L pdf]
- Griffin, Gabriele (2011) “Writing about Research Methods in the Arts and Humanities.” In R. Buikema, G. Griffin and N. Lykke, eds., Theories and Methods in Postgraduate Feminist Research. Researching Differently. New York: Routledge, pp. 91-104. [D2L pdf]
- Richardson, Laurel (2001). “Getting Personal: Writing-Stories.” Qualitative Studies in Education 14(1): 33-38. [D2L PDF]
- Culler, Jonathan (1982) “Reading as a Woman.” In On Deconstruction. Theory and Criticism after Structuralism. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, pp. 43-63. [D2L pdf]
- Ramazanoglu, Caroline and Janet Holland (2003) “Researching ‘Others’. Feminist Methodology and the Politics of Difference.” In Feminist Methodology. Challenges and Choices. London: Sage, pp. 105-122. [D2L pdf]
- Sky, L (2016) “Searching for my palm tree: Epistemological journeying of a child welfare doctoral student.” Qualitative Social Work 15(5-6):619-627. [Ejournal]
- Optional: Lundstrom, Catrin (2010) “’White Ethnography: (Un)comfortable Conveniences and Shared Privileges in Field-Work with Swedish Migrant Women.” NORA (Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research) 18(2):70-87. [E-journal]
- Optional: Bell, Linda (2014) “Ethics and Feminist Research.” In Hesse-Biber, ed. Feminist Research Practice, pp. 73-106. [D2L pdf]
- Optional: Detamore, M (2010) “Queer(y)ing the ethics of research methods: Towards a politics of intimacy in researcher/researched relations.” In K. Browne and C. Nash (eds). Queer Methods and Methodologies: Intersecting Queer Theories and Social Science Research, pp. 167-182 [D2L pdf]
- Optional: Anderson, Kathryn and Dana Jack (1991) “'Learning to Listen': Interview Techniques and Analyses.” In Berger Gluck, S. and D. Patai, eds. Women's Words. The Feminist Practice of Oral History. New York: Routledge, pp. 11-26. [D2L pdf]
- Optional: Bazzul, Jesse and Heather Sykes (2011) “The Secret Identity of a Biology Textbook: Straight and Naturally Sexed.” Cultural Studies of Science Education 6:265-286. [E-journal]
- Optional: Harries, B. (2016) “What’s Sex Got to Do with It? When a Woman Asks Questions.” Women’s Studies International Forum 59:48-57. [E-journal]
- Optional: Davis, Madeleine and Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy (1986) “Oral History and the Study of Sexuality in the Lesbian Community.” Feminist Studies 12(1):7-26. [E-journal]
- Optional: Lazar, M. (2007). “Feminist critical discourse analysis: Articulating a Feminist Discourse Praxis.” Critical Discourse Studies 4(2):141-164. [E-journal] Lukić, Jasmina and Adelina Sánchez Espinosa (2011) “Feminist Perspectives on Close
- Optional: Roth, Jenny and Chris Sanders (2018). “Incorrigible slag,” the case of Jennifer Murphy's HIV non-disclosure: Gender norm policing and the production of gender-class- race categories in Canadian news coverage.” Women’s Studies International Forum 68: 113-120. [E-journal]
- Optional: Hillsburg, Heather (2013) “Towards a Methodology of Intersectionality: An Axiom-Based Approach.” Atlantis 36(1):3-11. [E-journal]
- Optional: Ackerly B. and J. True (2010) “Back to the Future: Feminist Theory, Activism and Doing Feminist Research in an Age of Globalization.” Women’s Studies International Forum 33:464-472. [E-journal]
- Optional: McIntyre, Alice (2002) “Women Researching Their Lives: Exploring Violence and Identity in Belfast, the North of Ireland.” Qualitative Research 2(3):387-409. [E- journal]
- Optional: Bootinand, Jan for the Global Alliance against Traffic in women (2008) “Feminist Participatory Action Research in the Mekong Region.” In Jaggar, Just Methods, pp. 445-456. [D2L pdf]
- Optional: Gustafson, Diana L. (2000) “Best Laid Plans: Examining Contradictions between Intent and Outcome in a Feminist, Collaborative Research Project.” Qualitative Health Research 10(6):717-733. [E-journal]
- Optional: Buikema, Rosemarie and Marta Zarzyck (2011) “Visual Cultures: Feminist Perspectives.” In Buikema et al., Theories and Methodologies, pp. 119-134. [D2L pdf] Pausé, C. J. (2012). “Live to Tell: Coming out as Fat.” Somatechnics 2(1): 42-56. [D2L pdf]
- Optional: Nicholas, Jane (2014) “’A Debt to the Dead? Ethics, Photography, History and the Study of Freakery,” Histoire Sociale/Social History 47(93):139-155. [E-journal]
- Optional: Ashton, J. (2017) “Feminist Archiving (a manifesto continued): Skilling for Activism and Organizing.” Australian Feminist Studies 32:91-92:126-149 [D2L pdf]
- Optional: Power, E. (2004) “Toward Understanding in Postmodern Interview Analysis: Interpreting the Contradictory Remarks of a Research Participant.” Qualitative Health Research 14(6):858-865. [E-journal] Reale M. (2014) “The Only Way I Can Say this: Representing African Refugees’ Experience Through Poetic Inquiry.” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 43(6):770-773.
- Optional: Wk 13 - Presentations of 2nd research exercises
- Optional: Methods Course Evaluation
- Optional: brief class presentation (10-12 minutes)
- Optional: 3 page summary report
- Optional: Summarize your reflections on each research exercise in a brief paper (3 double- spaced pages, per exercise) to be handed in at the time of your presentation.
- Optional: 2. Class participation – (Required)
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- syllabus ↗Winter 2026
- Course source ↗
- syllabus ↗Fall 2025
- syllabus ↗Winter 2025
- Course source ↗
- syllabus ↗Winter 2024
- Course source ↗
- syllabus ↗Fall 2023
- Additional readings or course materials are supplied through the course site or course pack.
- Additional readings or course materials are supplied through the course site or course pack.
- Additional readings or course materials are supplied through the course site or course pack.
- Additional readings or course materials are supplied through the course site or course pack.
- Additional readings or course materials are supplied through the course site or course pack.