Gender and Colonialism: Canada Before the Twentieth Century

0.5 credits · Undergraduate

Examines gender disruptions and relations in the early colonial period of Canada's history. Students analyze how gender, together with class, race, and language, informed early relationships between Turtle Island's First Peoples, newcomers to this land, and the settler colonial state. Topics may include slavery, treaties, white settler societies, law, labour, education, and political and social organizing. Prerequisite: 1.0 GESO and/or HIST credit with a minimum 60% grade, or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for GESO-HIST-CAST 3160Y or 4160Y.