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GSWS 1020E INTRODUCTION TO GENDER AND WOMEN'S STUDIES
We will explore, among other topics, the following: challenges to the sex- and gender-binary, including transgender, non-binary, and intersex identities; intersectionality and solidarity across gender, race, class, and ability; constructions of masculinities and femininities; the operation of state power on gender and sexual minorities; colonialism and Indigenous resistances; activism and protest, including through literature and art. 

Come join us as we discuss these topics through conversations about sex testing in the Olympics; K-pop and boy bands; racism on dating apps like Tinder and Grindr; Uber, the gig economy, and mommy blogs; reproductive rights for trans folks; the recently released report from the inquiry on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA People; incels, rape culture, and misandry; self-care and emotional labour. 2 lecture hours plus one hour tutorial, 1.0 course.  Previous course outline

GSWS 1021F INTRODUCTION TO SEXUALITY STUDIES
This course is an interdisciplinary half-year course that will introduce students to the field of sexuality studies.  It will examine this field through several different approaches: theoretical, literary, visual, cultural and historical.  The aim will be to explore questions of identity and representation as they relate to sexuality: how are sexual identities formed? Are they essential or constructed? Who controls representations of sexuality? Why do we think of certain sexualities as normal and others as deviant? Within this context, we will analyze how certain expressions of sexuality are socially excluded and devalued in the name of a sexual norm. 2 hours plus a one hour tutorial, 0.5 course. Previous course outline

GSWS 1022G GENDER, JUSTICE, CHANGE
The 21st century is a period of accelerating change focused around issues of gender, justice and activism. This interdisciplinary course will introduce students to the ways in which movements for justice and change are informed by and take up gender issues in struggles for social justice, economic empowerment, education, health, poverty alleviation, human rights, environmental protection, peace-building, good governance and political representation. A variety of case studies and examples will be used to highlight the ways in which women and other marginalized groups organize and agitate for change, resist oppression and theorize the concept of “justice”. 2 hours plus a one hour tutorial, 0.5 course. 

GSWS 1023G GAY LIFE AND CULTURE IN THE 21ST CENTURY: BEYOND ADAM AND STEVE
Modern gay identities are defined by their integration into liberal capitalism and multicultural democracy. A once marginalized group now benefits from unprecedented social mobility. This course will survey the impact of a shifting market and new federal policies on topics like the social politics of gay spaces, gentrification, art and culture and more. Students will gain a historical understanding of gay culture and an interdisciplinary set of texts to analyze an ever multiplying set of identities that fit within gay culture. By the end of this course, students will be introduced to topics in gay and lesbian studies, queer theory and gender studies and have a set of critical tools to approach these topics from music studies, political theory and sociology. 2.5 hours  

GSWS 1024F INTRODUCTION TO EQUITY, DIVERSITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS
This introductory course surveys theory and practice in the fields of equity, diversity, and human rights. The course addresses how equity, diversity, and human rights policies and practices respond to social difference and relations of power; as well, we will examine arguments about multiculturalism as a strategy to promote social inclusion, the rights of ‘minoritized’ groups, and the politics of affirmative action. Towards these goals, we will take up readings about these issues from disciplines such as: anti-racism, feminism and gender studies, sexuality, disability, education, and legal studies. This also includes discussions of relevant case studies that highlight contemporary debates. Therefore, from different vantage points, the course examines some of the following questions: How are equity, diversity and human rights shaped by political and state interests? What are (some of) the limits and possibilities of institutionalized, liberal approaches to equity and diversity?  What are human rights and what does it mean to have such rights? And how are these rights contested and protected?  2 hours plus a one hour tutorial, 0.5 course Previous course outline

GSWS 2160A INTIMATE RELATIONS: SEX, GENDER AND LOVE
Intimate Relations focuses on how expectations of intimacy and relationships rely on particular understandings of love, sex, sexuality and bodies to shape how we experience ourselves as gendered and sexual beings. The course considers how intimacy (sexual, maternal, familial, affectionate) is understood in relation to history, philosophy, health, society and popular culture. No prerequisites 3 hours, 0.5 course.

GSWS 2161B WOMEN AND POPULAR CULTURE: GARBO TO GAGA
How are women represented in popular culture? Women's images in the media, from newspaper and magazines to television, film and music videos produce particular notions of what it means to be a woman, be feminine, etc. We will examine both the historical and contemporary roles of women in popular culture. 3 hours, 0.5 course.

GSWS 2162B THE BODY
We will examine social and scientific constructions of the body, including concepts of beauty, health, fitness, sexuality, and questions of representation. Among other things, we may examine particular social problems, such as technologies of the body and bodily modification, ideas of health and illness, society’s difficulty with understanding the disabled body as sexual, the cultural obsession with body size, psychiatric and medical responses to people who feel that their bodily sex does not match their gender, changing ideas about beauty and attraction, and artistic conceptions, representations, and alterations of the human body.
No prerequisites, 3 hours, 0.5 course. 

GSWS 2163A SEX, HOW TO: SEX EDUCATION, ITS HISTORY AND CONTROVERSIES 
Sex education is a controversial topic; should we even be teaching people how to have sex or how not to have sex? This course traces the history of sex education and its many controversies as well as looking at contemporary sex education practices both locally and in an international context. Previous course outline

GSWS 2164A GENDER AND FASHION
This course is designed to give students an introduction to the role played by fashion in the construction of gendered identities (in addition to learning about fashion history, fashion in relation to sexuality, and fashion as identity). Topics to be covered include: what clothing can tell us about empire, gender, sexuality, class, race, industry, revolution, nation-building, identity politics and globalization; fashion as art; drag queens and kings; fashion and sustainability; fashion journalism; the metrosexual; the history of the stiletto; veiling; and fashion subcultures such as goth and punk. We will also examine the trends of athleisure, anti-fashion, slow fashion, and normcore.Although the focus of much of the course will be on Western fashion, we will also look at Asian and African designers and influences (Harajuku fashion, Pei and Yamamoto; hip-hop and The Black Panther), as well as indigenous fashion. Previous course outline

GSWS 2167B  QUEER(ING) POPULAR CULTURE
How are Queer individuals represented in popular culture? Images of 2SLGBTQ+ individuals in media, including news, film, and television, produce particular ideas of queer identity. This course examines the historical and contemporary presence of queer individuals within popular culture and popular culture produced for and by 2SLGBTQ+ people.

GSWS 2220E FEMINIST THEORY AND PRACTICE ACROSS THE DISCIPLINES
(Reqiuired 2nd yr. theory course)
An examination of the implications of feminist theories and practices at work in many different disciplines, including arts, media, social sciences, health sciences, science, law. We introduce students to theoretical concepts and ask questions about the ways sex, gender and sexuality are understood and researched from a range of perspectives. Antirequisite(s): Women's Studies 2256E or Women's Studies 2257E Prerequisite(s): WS1020E, or WS1021F/G and WS1022F/G, or permission of the Department.
3 hours, 1.0 course.

GSWS 2225F INTRO TO GIRLHOOD STUDIES 
This course introduces students to the emerging field of Girlhood studies. We consider what it means to be a girl and how the concepts of girl and girlhood have been constructed across a variety of geographic and historical contexts, as well as how the intersections of race, class, gender, and ability have influenced these concepts. Drawing on a variety of disciplines, including literature, and history, we specifically consider girlhood through a feminist lens and examine how definitions of girl and girlhood shape individual experience, historical narratives, cultural representations, and futures
3 lecture hours, 0.5 course. Prerequisite(s): Women's Studies 1020E or 1.0 from Women's Studies 1021F/G, 1022F/G, 1023F/Gand 1024F/G. Previous course outline

GSWS 2240F FOUNDATION OF FEMINIST THOUGHT
This course takes up foundational readings in the history of feminist thought from early feminists’ calls for women's equality and rights to postmodern understandings of gender. The course will consider how feminist thought has emerged, developed and evolved in response to various historical, intellectual, social, political and cultural challenges. Antirequisite: WS2250E. No prerequisites.
3 hours, 0.5 course. Previous course outline

GSWS 2243F TECHNOLOGY AND EMBODIMENT
What is the relationship between technology, power, and the body? How do historical uses and contemporary developments of technology implicate our experiences and expressions of sexuality, gender, race, class and ability? This course will take an intersectional approach to examine a wide range of questions related technology and the body including: What role has sexuality and gender played in the development of technology, and how have technological advancements affected our ideas of identity categories? Is it useful to think of identity categories themselves as a sort of embodied technology? What can technological failures tell us about our relationship to one another? Topics we will examine include reproduction technologies, surveillance, virtual sex, digital romance and dating, biomedical practices, queer embodiment, the link between sexuality, technology and militarization, and technological innovations in queer activist practices. 

GSWS 2244 WOMEN AND HEALTH
This course takes a critical, interdisciplinary approach to understanding women’s health. The course is organized into six modules with each module covering a topic area that is relevant to women and health. The topics covered in this course are:The Medicalization of Women’s Health; Representing Gender and Women’s Health; The Politics of Reproduction; Diversity and Women’s Experiences of Health Care; The Social Determinants of Women’s Health; and Women, Work and Health. Antirequisite: Women’s Studies 2154. No prerequisites. Previous course outline

GSWS 2246B WORK, LITERATURE AND FILM: WOMEN AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Across the globe, contemporary women writers and filmmakers are increasingly engaging with environmental discourses in their artistic work. Intersectional in its manifestations, these artists’ commitment against environmental injustice is usually accompanied by concerns regarding gender, sexual, ethnic, and class inequality. Primary texts include fiction films, documentaries, novels, and short stories.

GSWS 2265G YOUTH ACTIVISM
In this course, we will highlight the connections among gender, youth activism, and nontraditional political participation. Understanding the state of youth activism, and the factors that encourage youth participation is particularly important because, as we will discuss throughout the semester, youth have played a crucial role in many of the most effective social movements going back to the 1960s, and the youth of today will shape what politics looks like for the next generation. The course is divided into three sections. First, we will examine the foundational features of youth activism and political participation writ large. Second, we will investigate current youth activism in action by looking at local, national, and global movements such as Black Lives Matter, March for Our Lives, and Fridays for Future. And, finally, by using the groundwork established in the first two-thirds of the course, we will explore how youth are changing the content and shape of political engagement today. Prerequisite(s): GSWS 1020E, or 1.0 course from GSWS 1021F/G, GSWS 1022F/G, GSWS 1023F/G, GSWS 1024F/G.

GSWS 2273E SEXUAL SUBJECTS
This interdisciplinary course focuses on sexuality as a subject of study and considers how sexuality defines individual and social subjectivity. The course will explore sexual subjects within a theoretical context and might include sexology, psychoanalysis, queer theory, feminism, the history of sexual identity, and its representation in cultural production.
No prerequisites. 3 hours, 1.0 course Previous course outline

GSWS 2274G INTRO TO TRANSGENDER STUDIES
This course will focus on trans identities, history, theory and politics from the perspectives of feminist, queer, and emerging trans theory. Topics may include transphobia and oppression of trans people, sex and gender change, transvestism, gender passing, transgender children and their families, and intersectionalities with sexuality, race, class, ability, etc. Antirequisite(s): Women's Studies 4460F/G if taught in Winter 2013; Women's Studies 3343F/G if taught in Fall 2015. Prerequisite(s): Women's Studies 1020E or 1.0 from Women's Studies 1021F/G, 1022F/G, 1023F/Gand 1024F/G. Previous course outline

GSWS 2283G DESIRING WOMEN
This course looks at how female sexuality and subjectivity is experienced, understood, represented and theorized across a range of disciplines; these may include art, literature, media, psychology, anthropology, sociology, biology and medicine. It explores how female sexual desires, practices and identities are shaped in relation to individual, cultural and social meanings of female sexuality. No prerequisites. 

GSWS 3133G LESBIAN LIVES AND CULTURES
This course will explore what it means to identify as a lesbian today. With the move away from identity politics and the ascendance of queer as a challenge to identity categories, it will consider the place of lesbianism in contemporary North American culture and more globally. Attention will be paid to a variety of aspects of lesbian lives and to contemporary forms of lesbian experiences in relation to their historical antecedents. Themes will include intersectionality, activism, sex, literature, art and politics. 3 lecture hours, 0.5 course. 
Prerequisite(s): Women's Studies 2273E or Women's Studies 2220E or permission of the department.

GSWS 3173G INTRODUCTION TO QUEER THEORY
What is queer theory, where did it come from, how is it changing? Examining key foundational texts in queer theory, the contexts for its emergence, and debates over its contemporary usefulness and direction, students in this course will trace the development of queer theory from Foucault to the present day.
3 hours, 0.5 course. Prerequisite(s): Women's Studies 2273E or Women's Studies 2220E or permission of the department. Previous course outline.

GSWS 3321G ADVANCED TOPICS IN FEMINIST THEORY AND PRACTICE IN THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES (Required 3rd yr. theory course)
This course applies a wide range of feminist theories and critical practices, including postmodern and queer theories, literary criticism, psychoanalysis, and postcolonial studies, to a diverse array of artistic practices, including literature, film, and the performing and visual arts. 3 hours, 0.5 course. Prerequisite(s): Women's Studies 2220E, or permission of the Department. Previous course outline

GSWS 3322F ADVANCED TOPICS IN FEMINIST THEORY AND PRACTICE IN SOCIAL SCIENCES
(Required 3rd yr. theory course)
This course is an advanced examination of the application of feminist theories and practices to topics in the social sciences. Focus will include epistemological and methodological questions raised in feminist engagement across the various social science disciplines. Topics addressed may include a range of social-economic, cultural, political, and policy issues. 3 hours, 0.5 course Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2220E, or permission of the Department. Previous course outline.

GSWS 3324G CONTEMPORARY TOPICS IN CRITICAL RACE STUDIES
Focussing on the changing meanings of race and racism in the twenty-first century, this course discusses and analyzes conceptual frameworks for understanding the multi-faceted and intersectional dimensions of race and racism, and examines how these inform social justice movements and other initiatives that seek to challenge institutional racism and racial violence. Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2220E or GSWS 2273E, or permission of the Department. 

GSWS 3330F GENDER, RACE AND REBELLION
When it comes to twenty-first century rebellions, adolescents are taking center stage, and specifically adolescent girls. In this course, we will examine contemporary girlhood and how adolescent girls are at the forefront of race- and gender-based rebellions. Understanding the state of youth activism, and the factors that encourage adolescent girls to rebel against harmful social structures is particularly important because, as we will discuss throughout the semester, youth have played a crucial role in many of the most effective social movements going back to the 1960s, and adolescent girls today are on the frontlines of rebelling against issues such as police brutality, government policies, and environmental catastrophe. Specifically, adolescent girls frequently demonstrate a hyper-awareness of how these injustices are informed by gender and race. Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2220E, or permission of the Department.

GSWS 3333F  RESISTING HOMOPHOBIA ACROSS THE GLOBE 
Homophobia - or a hostility towards persons not conforming to heterosexual norms - is old and new, global and local. Despite its longevity, it varies in intensity both geographically and historically & it is not natural, but created. It is also resisted, evaded, subverted. In this class, we explore these aspects of production, maintenance and resistance and we do so by paying attention to both history and contemporary cases. More specifically, we investigate how homophobia was and is implicated in the disciplining of gender, how it was and is a tool of orientalism; how it helped build nations and grow religious orders, how it aided Cold War; and how it now organizes notions of terrorism. Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2220E or GSWS 2273E, or permission of the Department.

GSWS 3345G/TS 3211G IN YOUR SKIN: SEXUALITY AND PERFORMANCE - NEW!!
Gender and sexuality. Intersectional experiences of gender identity. Trans, non-binary, queer lives. This is an unprecedented moment in modern history: these once-taboo topics are not only being spoken about openly, in the social mainstream, but are being taken up and explored with rigour, kindness, and hot, sweaty desire in all manner of theatrical and performance forms. In Your Skin introduces students to the past and present of sex and gender performatives on Western stages. We will meet the trailblazers, learn about the ways in which contemporary artists are pushing the boundaries of gender representation on stage today, and we’ll pay particular attention in the intersections among sexual and gender identities and experiences of race, Indigeneity, class, and ability on and off stage.  Prerequisites: Women's Studies 2253E or 2273E or 2220E or permission of the Department. 3 hours, 0.5 course. 

GSWS 3362G TOXIC MASCULINITY
“At the heart of the relational conception of masculinity is the conflict between what it means to be a “real” man and what it means to be a “good” man—a conflict that is ultimately enacted within contested contexts such as culture, ideology, institutions, and habitus. This leads to questions such as: are toxicity and masculinity mutually exclusive? Is toxicity an essentially masculine characteristic? Are toxic masculinity and healthy masculinity binary concepts? Toxic masculinity, as this course hypothesizes, thus arises when there is an incongruence or asymmetry between the performative and idealized aspects of men’s experiences of manhood and masculinity.” Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2220E, or permission of the Department.

GSWS 4458F STIGMA: PEOPLE, PLACES AND POPULATIONS
This course takes an intersectional and interdisciplinary approach to stigma theorization driven by a feminist perspective in order to critique the classed, raced, and gendered harms that structural stigma enacts. Through a wide range of examples using academic and non-academic literature, films, and popular media texts, we will examine stigma beyond established understandings of individualised shame. Rather, students will explore how stigma power operates as a technique of biopower applied at an individual, spatial and societal level to discipline bodies, and regulate populations and places in ways that reproduce existing hierarchies of difference and marginalize, manage, and/or affirm our place within society. Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2220E, or permission of the Department.

GSWS 4459G A BUSINESS OF PLEASURE AND PAIN: AN EXPLORATION OF SEX WORK IN CANADA 
Sex workers have long been at the forefront of feminism. Yet, many communities and scholars who proclaim a commitment to feminism continue to exclude sex workers and invalidate their lived experiences. In this course, students will explore how sex work is not inherently oppressive and instead look at how dominant social structures, values and laws marginalize sex workers and enable and perpetuate the injustices that sex workers face. Students will develop nuanced understandings of sex work leading to a recognition of and appreciation for the role that sex work has in feminism and social justice through both the struggles faced and accomplishments made by various sex working communities. Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2220E, or permission of the Department.

GSWS 4461F POST-FEMINISM, ADVERTISING AND INFLUENCERS
What is the relationship between feminism and advertising?  In what ways have women been involved in the advertising industry?  How has the advertising industry historically viewed and valued women as consumers?  How have activists used media reform to advance feminist aims? How has advertising responded to decades of feminist critique?  In this course, students will explore and discuss the representation of women in advertising, women’s employment in the advertising industry, the political economy of gender in audience studies, post-feminist advertising themes of empowerment, choice, diversity, and inclusion, and the relationship between activism and the a-political nature of post-feminism. Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2220E, or permission of the Department.

GSWS 4463F QUEER SCIENCE FICTION
This course will look at queer depictions of sexuality in science fiction, a genre that has been arguably somewhat queer from its inception in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Although we will touch on historical concerns, the primary focus of the course will be on work published after Ursula K Le Guin's monumentally influential novel,The Left Hand of Darkness (1967). The course will cover topics such as critiques of heteronormativity in sciencefiction, futures that imagine alternative epistemologies of sexuality, futures without binary sex/gender systems, the question of what roles sexuality plays in robotics and Artificial Intelligence, sexuality and post-humanism, sexuality in cyberpunk and its offshoots, and responses to the AIDS crisis. Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2220E or GSWS 2253E or GSWS 2273E, or permission of the Department.

GSWS 4464G GENDER AND THE ENVIRONMENT
This course will focus on the intersections between gender, sexuality, development and environmental justice. Feminist and queer theory will be used to interrogate binary categories such as natural/unnatural, nature/culture, normal/abnormal as they relate to our understandings of “the environment.” The course will explore how racism, colonialism, imperialism and other forms of oppression have shaped and continue to shape environmental discourses. We will examine key contemporary environmental issues such as climate change; food security; the “green” economy and low-carbon development; access to water, sanitation and energy; pollution; and wildlife conservation from feminist perspectives. Course materials will include academic and non-academic literature, activist texts as well as case studies, fiction and films. Prerequisite(s): Women's Studies 2220E, or permission of the Department.

WS 1020E INTRODUCTION TO GENDER AND WOMEN'S STUDIES
We will explore, among other topics, the following: challenges to the sex- and gender-binary, including transgender, non-binary, and intersex identities; intersectionality and solidarity across gender, race, class, and ability; constructions of masculinities and femininities; the operation of state power on gender and sexual minorities; colonialism and Indigenous resistances; activism and protest, including through literature and art. 

Come join us as we discuss these topics through conversations about sex testing in the Olympics; K-pop and boy bands; racism on dating apps like Tinder and Grindr; Uber, the gig economy, and mommy blogs; reproductive rights for trans folks; the recently released report from the inquiry on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA People; incels, rape culture, and misandry; self-care and emotional labour. 2 lecture hours plus one hour tutorial, 1.0 course.  Previous course outline

WS 1021F INTRODUCTION TO SEXUALITY STUDIES
This course is an interdisciplinary half-year course that will introduce students to the field of sexuality studies.  It will examine this field through several different approaches: theoretical, literary, visual, cultural and historical.  The aim will be to explore questions of identity and representation as they relate to sexuality: how are sexual identities formed? Are they essential or constructed? Who controls representations of sexuality? Why do we think of certain sexualities as normal and others as deviant? Within this context, we will analyze how certain expressions of sexuality are socially excluded and devalued in the name of a sexual norm. 2 hours plus a one hour tutorial, 0.5 course. Previous course outline

WS 1022G GENDER, JUSTICE AND CHANGE
The 21st century is a period of accelerating change focused around issues of gender, justice and activism. This interdisciplinary course will introduce students to the ways in which movements for justice and change are informed by and take up gender issues in struggles for social justice, economic empowerment, education, health, poverty alleviation, human rights, environmental protection, peace-building, good governance and political representation. A variety of case studies and examples will be used to highlight the ways in which women and other marginalized groups organize and agitate for change, resist oppression and theorize the concept of “justice”. 2 hours plus a one hour tutorial, 0.5 course Previous course outline

WS 1023G GAY LIFE AND CULTURE IN THE 21ST CENTURY: BEYOND ADAM AND STEVE
Modern gay identities are defined by their integration into liberal capitalism and multicultural democracy. A once marginalized group now benefits from unprecedented social mobility. This course will survey the impact of a shifting market and new federal policies on topics like the social politics of gay spaces, gentrification, art and culture and more. Students will gain a historical understanding of gay culture and an interdisciplinary set of texts to analyze an ever multiplying set of identities that fit within gay culture. By the end of this course, students will be introduced to topics in gay and lesbian studies, queer theory and gender studies and have a set of critical tools to approach these topics from music studies, political theory and sociology. 2 hours plus a one hour tutorial, 0.5 course. Previous course outline

WS 1024F INTRODUCTION TO EQUITY, DIVERSITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS
This introductory course surveys theory and practice in the fields of equity, diversity, and human rights. The course addresses how equity, diversity, and human rights policies and practices respond to social difference and relations of power; as well, we will examine arguments about multiculturalism as a strategy to promote social inclusion, the rights of ‘minoritized’ groups, and the politics of affirmative action. Towards these goals, we will take up readings about these issues from disciplines such as: anti-racism, feminism and gender studies, sexuality, disability, education, and legal studies. This also includes discussions of relevant case studies that highlight contemporary debates. Therefore, from different vantage points, the course examines some of the following questions: How are equity, diversity and human rights shaped by political and state interests? What are (some of) the limits and possibilities of institutionalized, liberal approaches to equity and diversity?  What are human rights and what does it mean to have such rights? And how are these rights contested and protected?  2 hours plus a one hour tutorial, 0.5 course Previous course outline

WS 2161B WOMEN AND POPULAR CULTURE: GARBO TO GAGA
How are women represented in popular culture? Women's images in the media, from newspaper and magazines to television, film and music videos produce particular notions of what it means to be a woman, be feminine, etc. We will examine both the historical and contemporary roles of women in popular culture. 3 hours, 0.5 course. New course outline.

WS 2163A SEX, HOW TO: SEX EDUCATION, ITS HISTORY AND CONTROVERSIES 
Sex education is a controversial topic; should we even be teaching people how to have sex or how not to have sex? This course traces the history of sex education and its many controversies as well as looking at contemporary sex education practices both locally and in an international context. Previous course outline

WS 2164A GENDER AND FASHION 

This course is designed to give students an introduction to  the role played by fashion in the construction of gendered identities (in addition to learning about fashion history, fashion in relation to sexuality, and fashion as identity). Topics to be covered include: what clothing can tell us about empire, gender, sexuality, class, race, industry, revolution, nation-building, identity politics and globalization; fashion as art; drag queens and kings; fashion and sustainability; fashion journalism; the metrosexual; the history of the stiletto; veiling; and fashion subcultures such as goth and punk. We will also examine the trends of athleisure, anti-fashion, slow fashion, and normcore.Although the focus of much of the course will be on Western fashion, we will also look at Asian and African designers and influences (Harajuku fashion, Pei and Yamamoto; hip-hop and The Black Panther), as well as indigenous fashion. Previous course outline

WS 2165B GENDER, MIGRATION AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Climate change is a major challenge for the planet’s future; population migration will increase, causing social, political and environmental effects while leaving some people with few options. This course will examine both present and future in a world where climate change is increasingly inevitable and its results are felt intersectionally. New course outline.

WS 2166B  D.I.Y. GENDER FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
Today we are starting to see official recognition, in some places, of trans and non-binary people, while social recognition of proliferating gender identities has become increasingly the norm. This course interrogates changes in the way genders are understood, from social to scientific recognition, and questions rhetorics of “choice,” “biology,” etc. New course outline.

WS 2205G MAKING MEN: CRITICAL STUDIES IN MASCULINITY
In emphasizing the social construction of manhood and masculinity as constitutive of the enormous capital that men command, this course aims to advance a critical view whereby such concepts are seen not as impenetrable bastions of historically oppressive power, but as privileged nodes that have been instrumentalized within discursive ideological networks. Through an examination of diverse media sources (literature, film, art, critical journalism, news articles, music, etc.) and their treatment of issues like “guy” culture, male body image, homosociality, aggression, family, success, and male sexuality, this course encourages the centrality of critical reflection in understanding the oftentimes violent negotiation of masculinity across various intersectional sites, and how those dynamics are refracted in men’s relationships with themselves, other men, women, and institutions. New course outline.

WS 2220E FEMINIST THEORY AND PRACTICE ACROSS THE DISCIPLINES
(Reqiuired 2nd yr. theory course)
An examination of the implications of feminist theories and practices at work in many different disciplines, including arts, media, social sciences, health sciences, science, law. We introduce students to theoretical concepts and ask questions about the ways sex, gender and sexuality are understood and researched from a range of perspectives. Antirequisite(s): Women's Studies 2256E or Women's Studies 2257E Prerequisite(s): WS1020E, or WS1021F/G and WS1022F/G, or permission of the Department.
3 hours, 1.0 course.

WS 2240F FOUNDATION OF FEMINIST THOUGHT
This course takes up foundational readings in the history of feminist thought from early feminists’ calls for women's equality and rights to postmodern understandings of gender. The course will consider how feminist thought has emerged, developed and evolved in response to various historical, intellectual, social, political and cultural challenges. Antirequisite: WS2250E. No prerequisites.
3 hours, 0.5 course. Previous course outline

WS 2243G SEXUALITIES AND SURVEILLANCE: CULTURES, PRACTICE AND RESISTANCE
How does surveillance affect our everyday experiences and expressions of sexuality? What is the history of sexual surveillance and what kinds of practices were used to control and regulate certain bodies over others? How do contemporary surveillance technologies aim to track, identify, and classify gender, race, and sexuality?Are there ways in which surveillance may benefit marginalized communities? And,how can we resist sexual surveillance? Taking a transnational intersectional approach, this course examines how surveillance technologies, practices, and strategies of resistance shape and contest perceptions of sex, desire, citizenship, and identity. Paying close attention to the relationship between issues of visibility and invisibility, we will analyze the role of surveillance in current political debates and contemporary representations of sexuality.

WS 2244 WOMEN AND HEALTH
This course takes a critical, interdisciplinary approach to understanding women’s health. The course is organized into six modules with each module covering a topic area that is relevant to women and health. The topics covered in this course are:The Medicalization of Women’s Health; Representing Gender and Women’s Health; The Politics of Reproduction; Diversity and Women’s Experiences of Health Care; The Social Determinants of Women’s Health; and Women, Work and Health. Antirequisite: Women’s Studies 2154. No prerequisites. Previous course outline

WS 2259F ORDER: SOCIAL SCIENCES THE FEMINIST WAY - NEW COURSE!
2020 is a year of disruptions, changes, disorders, and of retrenchments, returns to “normal” and restoration of orders. It is a moment of rupture, but one that has been long in the making, and it is a moment of uncertainty, as the shape of the future is still unclear. In this class we will explore the prevailing social science concepts that help us understand these shifting realities, and we will interrogate those concepts with feminist, queer and critical race theory. More specifically, in this class we will explore order and disorder, structure and agency, stability and change, and we will examine how they are produced, maintained and challenged, at the level of individual and a group. Even though order and disorder are relational terms, in that we cannot think of one without the other, in the fall, we will analytically isolate order - that is we will downplay the transformative and disruptive elements and focus on stability - and examine how it is produced at the level of an individual or a group. In the next semester, we will reverse the gaze and concentrate on disorder, its benefits, costs and processes. In exploring the issue of order, we will rely on history, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, political science and economics. The aim of this course is to help students develop a vocabulary that will help them in all social science courses; it is also to help them develop a capacity for critical and analytical questioning and deepening of that mainstream vocabulary.

WS 2263F INTERSECTIONS: RACE, CLASS AND SEXUALITY 
This course investigates the implicit and explicit connections among sexuality, gender identity, race and class. It uses feminist and queer theoretical approaches to examine the historical relationships between these intersecting factors and explore their legacy in the way that "othered" sexual bodies are perceived and treated.
Prerequisite: Women's Studies 1020E or Women’s Studies 1021F/G plus Women's Studies 1022F/G, or permission of the Department. Previous course outline

WS 2264G WITCHIN': INTERSECTIONAL INVESTIGATIONS INTO WITCHCRAFT AND OCCULT PRACTICES
The word ‘witch’ within the North American cultural imaginary often conjures stereotypical images of a ‘haggish old woman’ dressed in black flying through the night sky on a broom stick. Far from a simple Halloween character or occult figure, the witch is a person, a figure, a way of living, and a positionality that is inextricably imbricated in the formation and maintenance of many historical and contemporary political, religio-spiritual, and economic systems. In this course, we will conduct a sustained investigation of the figure of the witch across time and space with the goal of developing a greater understanding of the gendered, raced, sexualized, and classed aspects of this magikal figure. Guiding this investigation will be a pronounced focus on how normative conceptions of gender, race, class, and sexuality are articulated through and are challenged by this cultural figure. New course outline.

WS 2270B WOMEN, LAW AND SOCIAL CHANGE 
This course is an introduction to various areas of law which affect women in specific ways. It will examine laws relating to sex discrimination, employment, sexual harassment, rape and sexual assault, abortion, marriage, divorce, child custody, inheritance, pornography and prostitution. It will explore topical debates in these various areas of law and how law can be used as a strategy for bringing about social change.
No prerequisites. 3 hours, half course. Antirequisite(s): Women's Studies 2260. New course outline.

WS 2273E SEXUAL SUBJECTS
This interdisciplinary course focuses on sexuality as a subject of study and considers how sexuality defines individual and social subjectivity. The course will explore sexual subjects within a theoretical context and might include sexology, psychoanalysis, queer theory, feminism, the history of sexual identity, and its representation in cultural production.
No prerequisites. 3 hours, 1.0 course Previous course outline

WS 2274F INTRO TO TRANSGENDER STUDIES
This course will focus on trans identities, history, theory and politics from the perspectives of feminist, queer, and emerging trans theory. Topics may include transphobia and oppression of trans people, sex and gender change, transvestism, gender passing, transgender children and their families, and intersectionalities with sexuality, race, class, ability, etc. Antirequisite(s): Women's Studies 4460F/G if taught in Winter 2013; Women's Studies 3343F/G if taught in Fall 2015. Prerequisite(s): Women's Studies 1020E or 1.0 from Women's Studies 1021F/G, 1022F/G, 1023F/Gand 1024F/G. Previous course outline

WS 2275G HETEROSEXUALITIES
This course is interested in the interdisciplinary study of heterosexualities. Topics covered will include: social and historical productions of (hetero)sexualities; cultural performances of (hetero)sexualities; heterosexual pleasures and dangers; heterosexed pornographies and sex-work; erotic (hetero)sexual power play; and heterosexualities that cross the boundaries of (cis)gender, race, age, ability, class and nation. New course outline

WS 2283G DESIRING WOMEN
This course looks at how female sexuality and subjectivity is experienced, understood, represented and theorized across a range of disciplines; these may include art, literature, media, psychology, anthropology, sociology, biology and medicine. It explores how female sexual desires, practices and identities are shaped in relation to individual, cultural and social meanings of female sexuality. No prerequisites. New course outline.

WS 3153F BAD GIRLS: DISSIDENT WOMEN AND POPULAR CULTURE
This course examines our fascination with the figure of the “bad girl” in popular culture. We will concentrate on theoretical work which informs the relationship between popular culture and dissident sexuality in order to look more closely at how adolescent and young adult female bodies are created, controlled and contested. Prerequisites: Women's Studies 2253E or 2273E or 2220E or special permission of the department.

WS 3163G CONTEMPORARY QUEER TOPICS
This course investigates topics in contemporary queer life, including same-sex marriage, gay and queer radicalism and the fight for sexual liberation, the growth of assimilatory politics and its consequences, homonationalism and pink-washing, homophobia and bullying, the role of religion, and the globalization of LGBT human rights rhetoric and politics. Prerequisite(s): Women's Studies 2273E or Women's Studies 2220E or permission of the department.

WS 3311F/ ENG 3369F - TOPICS IN 19TH CENTURY LITERATURE: JANE AUSTEN
This course will be broad enough to provide an introduction to this historical period. It may concentrate on a shorter historical span, a particular genre, or use some other principle of selection. 3 hours, 0.5 course

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WS 3315G RESPONDING TO VIOLENCE AT THE INTERSECTIONS OF GENDER, SEXUALITY AND SETTLER COLONIALISM
This course is designed as a kind of response to this report, as well as other Indigenous activists, scholars, and allies who are seeking both justice for and the prevention of future violence against Indigenous women and girls. To accomplish this, with me students will engage in a learning (or unlearning) of Canada’s settler-colonial policies and agendas that have contributed to the marginalization of many Indigenous people and communities. From that foundational knowledge, the rest of the course will be spent investigating and understanding the specific problem of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada, with special attention to the kinds of work being done to raise awareness about and ultimately prevent more forced disappearances and murders. 

WS 3316G WOMEN AND OTHER DEVIANTS.....UNDER COMMUNISM AND CAPITALISM - NEW COURSE!
The point of this course is to examine how major politico-economic systems produce different notions of gender, and how they produce different sexual citizens. To this end, in this class, we explore the main tenets of real (past and present) communism and capitalism, as both political and economic systems; we trace how they produce their ‘ideal’ citizen & worker; and we investigate how those citizens & workers implicate notions of gender and sexuality.

WS 3321F ADVANCED TOPICS IN FEMINIST THEORY AND PRACTICE IN THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES (Required 3rd yr. theory course)
This course applies a wide range of feminist theories and critical practices, including postmodern and queer theories, literary criticism, psychoanalysis, and postcolonial studies, to a diverse array of artistic practices, including literature, film, and the performing and visual arts.
3 hours, 0.5 course. Prerequisite(s): Women's Studies 2220E, or permission of the Department.
Previous course outline

WS 3322G ADVANCED TOPICS IN FEMINIST THEORY AND PRACTICE IN SOCIAL SCIENCES
(Required 3rd yr. theory course)
This course is an advanced examination of the application of feminist theories and practices to topics in the social sciences. Focus will include epistemological and methodological questions raised in feminist engagement across the various social science disciplines. Topics addressed may include a range of social-economic, cultural, political, and policy issues. 3 hours, 0.5 course Prerequisite(s): Women's Studies 2220E, or permission of the Department. New course outline.

WS 3324G CONTEMPORARY TOPICS IN CRITICAL RACE STUDIES
Focussing on the changing meanings of race and racism in the twenty-first century, this course discusses and analyzes conceptual frameworks for understanding the multi-faceted and intersectional dimensions of race and racism, and examines how these inform social justice movements and other initiatives that seek to challenge institutional racism and racial violence. Antirequisite(s): Women's Studies 3331F/G if taught in Fall 2015. Prerequisite(s): Women's Studies 2220E or Women's Studies 2273E. New course outline.

NEW COURSE
WS 3345G GLOBAL AND HISTORICAL CASES OF HOMOPHOBIA AND RESISTANCE
Homophobia - or a hostility towards persons not conforming to heterosexual norms - is old and new, global and local, and its apparent demise in some places and times is never assured. In this class, we will explore all these aspects of production, maintenance and resistance and we will do it by paying attention to both history and contemporary cases. We will investigate how homophobia was and is implicated in disciplining of gender, how it was and is a tool of orientalism; how it helped build nations and grow religious orders, how it aided Cold War; and how it now organizes the notions of terrorism. We will also explore how it adapted and responded to ongoing resistance and how the resistance changed through time. Our class discussions will be anchored around the cases of France, Iran, USA, Uganda and Poland, and they will explore how the cases affect each other. Other cases of interest to students are welcome!

WS 3350F FEMINISM ACROSS BORDERS
Is an inclusive feminism possible? Is a feminism that transcends borders and embraces a
broader, more global spectrum of feminist voices than ever before feasible? Reading feminist
authors from a diversity of backgrounds, we examine the attractions and challenges of a global
feminism. Prerequisite(s): Women's Studies 2220E, or permission of the Department. Previous course outline

WS 3355E FEMINIST ACTIVISM
This course examines a variety of issues and interventions to understand what feminist action can accomplish. Some of the questions we engage include:  What tools do various feminist activists take up, for what specific kinds of aims, and with what successes and why? What can we learn from the failures or exclusions of feminist activisms? What are the relationships between past or historical movements and contemporary contexts, individual and collective action, community organizing and institutions, local and global solidarities? How can feminist protest genuinely avoid divide-and-conquer politics to be the ethical, intersectional, accountable work we require of feminism in the 21^st century? It is the commitment of this course that, in addition to studying feminist activism in the classroom, students engage in a Community Engagement Learning (CEL) project sustained over the course with a community organization or other partners to encourage students’ implementation of their learning -- beyond the borders of the classroom. Please note that the course is currently capped at twenty-two students for CEL group projects. As of July 21^st, registration will open to students wishing to take it with an alternate assignment rather than working with, and completing a project for, community partners.

WS 3357G/ FILM 3352G - QUEER CINEMA: BEFORE STONEWALL- QUEER CINEMA AND AMERICAN CULTURE FROM WWII TO GAY LIBERATION 
Examining the conventions and the gradual undoing of what Vito Russo famously called “the celluloid closet,” this course will explore key shifts in queer representation in American cinema of the postwar era. We will analyze the queer typology (sad young men, dangerous dykes, queer killers, etc.) of a variety of Hollywood genres (horror, noir, melodrama) as well as the often subversive work of figures like Tennessee Williams, Carson McCullers, and Alfred Hitchcock in the context of Cold War homophobia and gender normativity. We will then frame the eventual breakdown of Production Code restrictions on “sexual perversion” in relation to the development of queer alternatives via avant-garde, underground, and documentary cinema. The final section of the course will concentrate on a group of films from the Stonewall era that will allow us to grapple with the aesthetic, cultural, and political consequences of the shift from silence and oppression to an era of presumed liberation. What’s gained—and perhaps lost—for queer subjects in the transition from invisibility to visibility, from subculture to mainstream, and how has this key historical moment shaped our contemporary notions of queer culture and identity?

Potential screenings include: Queen Christina, Rope, Tea and Sympathy, Caged, Johnny Guitar, Glen or Glenda?, The Children’s Hour, Fireworks, Un Chant d’Amour, My Hustler, Chained Girls, Olivia, Flaming Creatures, A Florida Enchantment, Portrait of Jason, The Queen, CBS Reports: The Homosexuals, Reflections in a Golden Eye, The Killing of Sister George, and others. 

WS 3358G FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES ON GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE IN CANADA 
Gender-based violence was one of the earliest issues identified by feminists as a focus for grass-roots organization and continues today to be an important subject for community work, research and political struggle. This seminar will provide an overview of both the theory and practice of feminist anti-violence work locally and globally. This course will also examine key aspects of these debates in Canada and the United States, as well as in other parts of the world. These theoretical issues will also be connected with practice, that is, with the front-line work that is undertaken in the community to counter violence against women and their children. New course outline

NEW COURSE
WS 3359G/VA 3362G RACE AND GENDER IN THE PRE-MODERN WORLD
This course explores the influence of women artists, patrons, collectors, subjects, etc. on the Early Modern art world. In approaching this topic, we begin by contextualizing early feminist art historical interventions that established the initial processes of recovery of female artistic voices as we examine important women artists and female contributors to the art market in Europe during the Early Modern era. Informed by contemporary theories and methodologies concerning gender and race, our discussion of Early Modern art will move beyond Europe into the Americas and the Middle East to consider the significance of female artists, patrons, and personas. This course both surveys Early Modern women artists and patrons and examines the academic discourse on Renaissance and Baroque Art History.

WS 4456F FOR POLITICS, PROGRESS AND PLEASURE: EXPLORING CONTEMPORARY QUEER COMMUNITIES
This course is a survey of various communities that are made by and for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Queer, Intersex, Asexual, and 2-Spirit (LGBTQIA2+) populations throughout contemporary north america. The survey is framed through attention to historical context, spatial location, and temporality. The course highlights a multi-faceted and heterogeneous collection of “queer” communities and challenges the notion that there exists a monolithic “queer community.” By studying spaces of gathering in its various forms and purposes, “community” as a concept will become an overarching indicator of not only one, but many ways of connecting to others.  

WS 4460G QUEER TEMPORALITIES 
Is there such a thing as queer time? In recent years, much queer scholarship has focused on the idea of queer temporalities, opposing queer time to heteronormative time, from both individual and historical perspectives. The
notion of queer time has led to analyses of how we approach the historical, and how we engage with questions of desire and subject formation. However, if queer time has value as a critical tool, we will also consider whether it can continue to have purchase in the face of the increasing normalization of the very idea of queer.

WS 4464G GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT
This course will provide an introduction to the theory and practice of gender and development. Course content is informed by the interests and needs of future scholars and practitioners - i.e. students who hope to engage in research, project design and implementation, policy analysis, monitoring and evaluation, advocacy and/or networking in development or a closely related domain. The course seeks to provide students with a strong theoretical and conceptual grounding in gender and development as well as applied skills to work as a development professional. Students will study development policy and learn tools and methodologies that will enable them to pursue careers as gender equality practitioners with the United Nations system, other intergovernmental organizations, development-oriented state agencies, NGOs and other civil society organizations, bilateral and multi-lateral agencies, and private foundations.

WS 1020E INTRODUCTION TO GENDER AND WOMEN'S STUDIES
In 2019-2020 we will explore, among other topics, the following: challenges to the sex- and gender-binary, including transgender, non-binary, and intersex identities; intersectionality and solidarity across gender, race, class, and ability; constructions of masculinities and femininities; the operation of state power on gender and sexual minorities; colonialism and Indigenous resistances; activism and protest, including through literature and art. 

Come join us as we discuss these topics through conversations about sex testing in the Olympics; K-pop and boy bands; racism on dating apps like Tinder and Grindr; Uber, the gig economy, and mommy blogs; reproductive rights for trans folks; the recently released report from the inquiry on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA People; incels, rape culture, and misandry; self-care and emotional labour. 2 lecture hours plus one hour tutorial, 1.0 course.  Previous course outline

WS 1021F INTRODUCTION TO SEXUALITY STUDIES
This course is an interdisciplinary half-year course that will introduce students to the field of sexuality studies.  It will examine this field through several different approaches: theoretical, literary, visual, cultural and historical.  The aim will be to explore questions of identity and representation as they relate to sexuality: how are sexual identities formed? Are they essential or constructed? Who controls representations of sexuality? Why do we think of certain sexualities as normal and others as deviant? Within this context, we will analyze how certain expressions of sexuality are socially excluded and devalued in the name of a sexual norm. 2 hours plus a one hour tutorial, 0.5 course. Previous course outline

WS 1022G GENDER, JUSTICE AND CHANGE

The 21st century is a period of accelerating change focused around issues of gender, justice and activism. This interdisciplinary course will introduce students to the ways in which movements for justice and change are informed by and take up gender issues in struggles for social justice, economic empowerment, education, health, poverty alleviation, human rights, environmental protection, peace-building, good governance and political representation. A variety of case studies and examples will be used to highlight the ways in which women and other marginalized groups organize and agitate for change, resist oppression and theorize the concept of “justice”. 2 hours plus a one hour tutorial, 0.5 course Previous course outline

WS 1023F GAY LIFE AND CULTURE IN THE 21ST CENTURY: BEYOND ADAM AND STEVE
Modern gay identities are defined by their integration into liberal capitalism and multicultural democracy. A once marginalized group now benefits from unprecedented social mobility. This course will survey the impact of a shifting market and new federal policies on topics like the social politics of gay spaces, gentrification, art and culture and more. Students will gain a historical understanding of gay culture and an interdisciplinary set of texts to analyze an ever multiplying set of identities that fit within gay culture. By the end of this course, students will be introduced to topics in gay and lesbian studies, queer theory and gender studies and have a set of critical tools to approach these topics from music studies, political theory and sociology. 2 hours plus a one hour tutorial, 0.5 course. Previous course outline

WS 1024G INTRODUCTION TO EQUITY, DIVERSITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS

This introductory course surveys theory and practice in the fields of equity, diversity, and human rights. The course addresses how equity, diversity, and human rights policies and practices respond to social difference and relations of power; as well, we will examine arguments about multiculturalism as a strategy to promote social inclusion, the rights of ‘minoritized’ groups, and the politics of affirmative action. Towards these goals, we will take up readings about these issues from disciplines such as: anti-racism, feminism and gender studies, sexuality, disability, education, and legal studies. This also includes discussions of relevant case studies that highlight contemporary debates. Therefore, from different vantage points, the course examines some of the following questions: How are equity, diversity and human rights shaped by political and state interests? What are (some of) the limits and possibilities of institutionalized, liberal approaches to equity and diversity?  What are human rights and what does it mean to have such rights? And how are these rights contested and protected?  2 hours plus a one hour tutorial, 0.5 course Previous course outline

WS 2160A INTIMATE RELATIONS: SEX, GENDER AND LOVE
This course focuses on how expectations of intimacy and relationships rely on particular understandings of love, sex, sexuality and bodies to shape how we experience ourselves as gendered and sexual beings. The course considers how intimacy (sexual, maternal, familial, affectionate) is understood in relation to history, society and popular culture.

This course approaches the broad theme of intimacy from multiple perspectives and through a variety of topics, many of which will be presented by a guest lecturer who is a specialist in the relevant field of study. Topics include issues of locating and understanding intimate relations in history, the development of heterosexual intimacy, the history and contemporary practice of Queer intimacy, the politics of abortion and birth control, the influence of the media on love, sex and women’s health, interracial relationships, and the politics and practice of marriage, motherhood and the family. No prerequisites 3 hours, 0.5 course. Previous course outline

WS 2161B WOMEN AND POPULAR CULTURE: GARBO TO GAGA
How are women represented in popular culture? Women's images in the media, from newspaper and magazines to television, film and music videos produce particular notions of what it means to be a woman, be feminine, etc. We will examine both the historical and contemporary roles of women in popular culture. 3 hours, 0.5 course. Previous course outline

WS 2162B THE BODY
We will examine social and scientific constructions of the body, including concepts of beauty, health, fitness, sexuality, and questions of representation. Among other things, we may examine particular social problems, such as technologies of the body and bodily modification, ideas of health and illness, society’s difficulty with understanding the disabled body as sexual, the cultural obsession with body size, psychiatric and medical responses to people who feel that their bodily sex does not match their gender, changing ideas about beauty and attraction, and artistic conceptions, representations, and alterations of the human body.
No prerequisites, 3 hours, 0.5 course. Previous course outline

WS 2163A SEX, HOW TO: SEX EDUCATION, ITS HISTORY AND CONTROVERSIES 
Sex education is a controversial topic; should we even be teaching people how to have sex or how not to have sex? This course traces the history of sex education and its many controversies as well as looking at contemporary sex education practices both locally and in an international context. Previous course outline

WS 2164A GENDER AND FASHION 

This course is designed to give students an introduction to  the role played by fashion in the construction of gendered identities (in addition to learning about fashion history, fashion in relation to sexuality, and fashion as identity). Topics to be covered include: what clothing can tell us about empire, gender, sexuality, class, race, industry, revolution, nation-building, identity politics and globalization; fashion as art; drag queens and kings; fashion and sustainability; fashion journalism; the metrosexual; the history of the stiletto; veiling; and fashion subcultures such as goth and punk. We will also examine the trends of athleisure, anti-fashion, slow fashion, and normcore.Although the focus of much of the course will be on Western fashion, we will also look at Asian and African designers and influences (Harajuku fashion, Pei and Yamamoto; hip-hop and The Black Panther), as well as indigenous fashion. Previous course outline

WS 2205G MAKING MEN: CRITICAL STUDIES IN MASCULINITY
In emphasizing the social construction of manhood and masculinity as constitutive of the enormous capital that men command, this course aims to advance a critical view whereby such concepts are seen not as impenetrable bastions of historically oppressive power, but as privileged nodes that have been instrumentalized within discursive ideological networks. Through an examination of diverse media sources (literature, film, art, critical journalism, news articles, music, etc.) and their treatment of issues like “guy” culture, male body image, homosociality, aggression, family, success, and male sexuality, this course encourages the centrality of critical reflection in understanding the oftentimes violent negotiation of masculinity across various intersectional sites, and how those dynamics are refracted in men’s relationships with themselves, other men, women, and institutions. Course outline

WS 2220E FEMINIST THEORY AND PRACTICE ACROSS THE DISCIPLINES
(Reqiuired 2nd yr. theory course)
An examination of the implications of feminist theories and practices at work in many different disciplines, including arts, media, social sciences, health sciences, science, law. We introduce students to theoretical concepts and ask questions about the ways sex, gender and sexuality are understood and researched from a range of perspectives. Antirequisite(s): Women's Studies 2256E or Women's Studies 2257E Prerequisite(s): WS1020E, or WS1021F/G and WS1022F/G, or permission of the Department.
3 hours, 1.0 course. Previous course outline

WS 2240F FOUNDATION OF FEMINIST THOUGHT
This course takes up foundational readings in the history of feminist thought from early feminists’ calls for women's equality and rights to postmodern understandings of gender. The course will consider how feminist thought has emerged, developed and evolved in response to various historical, intellectual, social, political and cultural challenges. Antirequisite: WS2250E. No prerequisites.
3 hours, 0.5 course. Previous course outline

WS 2243G Feminist Topics in Sexuality Studies: Queer & Feminist Film & Media Festivals
This course introduces students to the students to the critical and scholarly study of queer and feminist film and media festivals globally. Though film festivals are nearly as old as cinema itself, and queer and feminist film festivals emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s concurrently with the new civil rights movements across North America and Europe, the scholarly study of film and media festivals is a relatively new phenomenon, with much of the scholarship on festivals published in the last 10 years. This course introduces students to this contemporary research as well as to the early festival research and theory that forms the foundation of this field of study and to the various methods of studying queer and feminist film festivals. 3 lecture hours, 0.5 course. Prerequisite(s): none

WS 2244 WOMEN AND HEALTH
This course takes a critical, interdisciplinary approach to understanding women’s health. The course is organized into six modules with each module covering a topic area that is relevant to women and health. The topics covered in this course are:The Medicalization of Women’s Health; Representing Gender and Women’s Health; The Politics of Reproduction; Diversity and Women’s Experiences of Health Care; The Social Determinants of Women’s Health; and Women, Work and Health.
Antirequisite: Women’s Studies 2154. No prerequisites. Previous course outline

WS 2252G WOMEN WRITING SEX: GENDER, SEXUALITY AND THE BODY IN WOMEN'S WRITING FROM THE GLOBAL SOUTH (Antirequisite WS 2233G if taken in Winter 2019)
The main objective of the course is to acquaint the students with a wide range of women’s voices on gender and sexuality through their writings, from across the world, especially from the global south. We will focus on how gender, class, and race intersecting in women’s own expressions of sexual identities, practices and politics which are shaped by their respective societal definitions of gender norms or constructions of sexual taboos. It will include women’s writings from different literary genres, both traditional as well as contemporary ones including fiction, essay, poetry, blogs or online contents, films etc.
3 lecture hours, 0.5 course.  Antirequisite: WS 2233G if taken in 2018-2019.  Prerequisite(s): Women's Studies 1020E, or both Women's Studies 1021F/G and Women's Studies 1022F/G, or permission of the Department.

WS 2260 WOMEN, LAW AND SOCIAL CHANGE 
This course is an introduction to various areas of law which affect women in specific ways. It will examine laws relating to sex discrimination, employment, sexual harassment, rape and sexual assault, abortion, marriage, divorce, child custody, inheritance, pornography and prostitution. It will explore topical debates in these various areas of law and how law can be used as a strategy for bringing about social change.
No prerequisites. 3 hours, half course. Antirequisite(s): Women's Studies 2270A/B. Previous course outline

WS 2263F INTERSECTIONS: RACE, CLASS AND SEXUALITY
Are Latinas inherently sexy and sensual women? Are poor people, especially nonwhite people, lazy and shiftless? Do Aboriginal women make “bad” mothers? Are Asian men less “manly” than black men? These questions, among others, will be discussed in this course as we investigate the intersections between race, class, and sexuality from an interdisciplinary perspective. One of the main objectives of this course will be to unravel how human beings become categories that expand beyond the seemingly binary divide between “the sexes,” “the races,” and the “haves and have-notes.” Instead, we will consider the real-life experiences of “Muslim women” or “two-spirit people” through an examination of texts from the fields of anthropology, cultural studies, feminist studies, and queer studies, among others. In addition, our examination of products from popular culture, such as films, television shows, music videos, and clips from the internet, will provide thoughtful, and often provocative, examples of the complex representations of race, gender, class, and sexuality in our society.
Prerequisite: Women's Studies 1020E or Women’s Studies 1021F/G plus Women's Studies 1022F/G, or permission of the Department. Previous course outline

WS 2264F FEMINISM IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH: READING FEMINIST LITERATURE INTERCULTURALLY
The broader objective of this course is to acquaint students with the universal nature of feminism, especially from the non-western contexts. Keeping gender and sexuality as the main focus of the course, it will introduce issues around gender, sexuality, diversity, identities and experiences through different genres of literature by women writes and researchers from the global south. Through these readings, the course will examine the cultural and social constructions of gender and sexuality through the lens of gender and feminist theories that are originating from non-western academia and literature. 
3 lecture hours, 0.5 course.  Prerequisite(s): Women's Studies 1020E, or both Women's Studies 1021F/G and Women's Studies 1022F/G, or permission of the Department.

WS 2273E SEXUAL SUBJECTS
This interdisciplinary course focuses on sexuality as a subject of study and considers how sexuality defines individual and social subjectivity. The course will explore sexual subjects within a theoretical context and might include sexology, psychoanalysis, queer theory, feminism, the history of sexual identity, and its representation in cultural production.
No prerequisites. 3 hours, 1.0 course Previous course outline

WS 2274F INTRO TO TRANSGENDER STUDIES
This course will focus on trans identities, history, theory and politics from the perspectives of feminist, queer, and emerging trans theory. Topics may include transphobia and oppression of trans people, sex and gender change, transvestism, gender passing, transgender children and their families, and intersectionalities with sexuality, race, class, ability, etc.
3 lecture hours, 0.5 course. Antirequisite(s): Women's Studies 4460F/G if taught in Winter 2013; Women's Studies 3343F/G if taught in Fall 2015. Prerequisite(s): Women's Studies 1020E or 1.0 from Women's Studies 1021F/G, 1022F/G, 1023F/Gand 1024F/G. Previous course outline

WS 2275G HETEROSEXUALITIES
This course is interested in the interdisciplinary study of heterosexualities. Topics covered will include: social and historical productions of (hetero)sexualities; cultural performances of (hetero)sexualities; heterosexual pleasures and dangers; heterosexed pornographies and sex-work; erotic (hetero)sexual power play; and heterosexualities that cross the boundaries of (cis)gender, race, age, ability, class and nation, 3 lecture hours, 0.5 course. Course outline

WS 2283G DESIRING WOMEN
This course looks at how female sexuality and subjectivity is experienced, understood, represented and theorized across a range of disciplines; these may include art, literature, media, psychology, anthropology, sociology, biology and medicine. It explores how female sexual desires, practices and identities are shaped in relation to individual, cultural and social meanings of female sexuality. No prerequisites. 3 hours, 0.5 course. Course outline

WS 3133G LESBIAN LIVES AND CULTURES
This course will explore what it means to identify as a lesbian today. With the move away from identity politics and the ascendance of queer as a challenge to identity categories, it will consider the place of lesbianism in contemporary North American culture and more globally. Attention will be paid to a variety of aspects of lesbian lives and to contemporary forms of lesbian experiences in relation to their historical antecedents. Themes will include intersectionality, activism, sex, literature, art and politics. 3 lecture hours, 0.5 course. Prerequisite(s): Women's Studies 2273E or Women's Studies 2220E or permission of the department. Course outline

WS 3173F INTRODUCTION TO QUEER THEORY
What is queer theory, where did it come from, how is it changing? Examining key foundational texts in queer theory, the contexts for its emergence, and debates over its contemporary usefulness and direction, students in this course will trace the development of queer theory from Foucault to the present day.
3 hours, 0.5 course. Prerequisite: Women's Studies 2273E or permission of the department. Previous course outline.

WS 3321F ADVANCED TOPICS IN FEMINIST THEORY AND PRACTICE IN THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES (Required 3rd yr. theory course)
This course applies a wide range of feminist theories and critical practices, including postmodern and queer theories, literary criticism, psychoanalysis, and postcolonial studies, to a diverse array of artistic practices, including literature, film, and the performing and visual arts.
3 hours, 0.5 course. Prerequisite(s): Women's Studies 2220E, or permission of the Department.
Previous course outline

WS 3322G ADVANCED TOPICS IN FEMINIST THEORY AND PRACTICE IN SOCIAL SCIENCES
(Required 3rd yr. theory course)
This course is an advanced examination of the application of feminist theories and practices to topics in the social sciences. Focus will include epistemological and methodological questions raised in feminist engagement across the various social science disciplines. Topics addressed may include a range of social-economic, cultural, political, and policy issues. 3 hours, 0.5 course Prerequisite(s): Women's Studies 2220E, or permission of the Department. Previous course outline

WS 3324G CONTEMPORARY TOPICS IN CRITICAL RACE STUDIES
Focussing on the changing meanings of race and racism in the twenty-first century, this course discusses and analyzes conceptual frameworks for understanding the multi-faceted and intersectional dimensions of race and racism, and examines how these inform social justice movements and other initiatives that seek to challenge institutional racism and racial violence. Antirequisite(s): Women's Studies 3331F/G if taught in Fall 2015. Prerequisite(s): Women's Studies 2220E or Women's Studies 2273E. Course outline

WS 3305F CULTURE JAM: GENDER, SEXUALITY AND CULTURAL RESISTANCE
While popular culture operates to naturalize and distribute dominant discourses about gender and sexuality, it is also a fertile space through which resistance can be enacted. This course examines; common sense; representations of gender and sexuality within Western popular culture and the ways these representations have been confronted and contested. Antirequisite(s): The former WS 359F. Prerequisites: Women's Studies 2253E or 2273E or 2220E or permission of the Department. 3 hours, 0.5 course. Previous course outline

WS 3343G Feminist Topics in Sexuality Studies: Interventions in Rape Cultures - New course
This course aims to continue and complicate the many contemporary discussions in academia, news, and social media regarding sexualized violence. Specifically: what is sexualized violence? Are rape and other kinds of sexualized violences an inevitable part of ‘being’ or ‘becoming’ human? And, if not, what can we do to prevent sexualized violence? Drawing on the works of feminist theorists working in different disciplines (e.g. critical theory, history, anthropology, cultural studies), the course will aim to employ feminist theory’s attentiveness to context and complexity to help think through this long-standing, but contextually and temporally specific, form of gendered violence. Importantly, although this course will draw on important qualitative research conducted in the social sciences regarding sexualized violence, this course will most prominently engage with philosophical and theoretical approaches to rape cultures, sexualized violence and its prevention characteristic of the Arts & Humanities. Prerequisite(s): Women's Studies2273E or Women's Studies 2220E or permission of the department. Course outline

WS 3350F FEMINISM ACROSS BORDERS
Is an inclusive feminism possible? Is a feminism that transcends borders and embraces a
broader, more global spectrum of feminist voices than ever before feasible? Reading feminist
authors from a diversity of backgrounds, we examine the attractions and challenges of a global
feminism. Prerequisite(s): Women's Studies 2220E, or permission of the Department. Previous course outline

WS 3357G WOMEN FILMMAKERS 
(cross-listed with Spanish 3350 and CLC 3350G)
This course will explore the notion of film authorship in relation to its utterances and implications when associated to the praxis of contemporary women film directors, from the early 1960s to the present. While troubling the notion of women’s cinema, its definition, limits and limitations, a wide range of case studies – films emerging from dissimilar contexts of production and reception – will be mostly read and discussed in the light of feminist approaches to questions about gender and representation. In this sense, the course will also offer a historical and critical overview of feminist scholarship within film studies and of the ongoing debates in this area of study. 0.5 course. Prerequisite(s): Women's Studies 2220E, or permission of the Department. Previous course outline

WS 4458G Gender, Militarism and Peacekeeping
This course will take an in-depth look at how gender operates within global peacekeeping and what intersectional dimensions of inequality exist among peacekeepers. We will look at how those who are made subordinate navigate these contradictory spaces. The course will begin by looking at the history of United Nations peacekeeping and Canadian involvement as well as what peacekeeping is and what peacekeepers do. We will read international texts and resolutions (such as UNSCR 1325), as well as feminist scholarship on the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda including its potential and limitations. Prerequisite(s): Women's Studies 2220E, or permission of the Department. Course outline

WS 4459G Spaces, Sexualities and Subjectivities: Queer(ing) Geographies
In this course we will consider what it means to queer a space, what it means and/or has meant to take up space on behalf of a particular group, and the relational dynamics between and among spaces and subjectivities. Throughout the semester we will look specifically at mapping practices, affective and emotional geographies, decolonizing geography, trans spaces and trans and nonbinary folks’ experiences navigating particular spaces, as well as queer and trans experiences of belonging and visibility in rural areas specifically. Students will think critically about the politics of queer space, how notions of queer space are challenged and deconstructed, and about who is understood as belonging in queer spaces. Prerequisite(s): Women's Studies 2220E, or permission of the Department. Course outline

WS 4461F Feminist Activism
This course examines a variety of issues and interventions to understand what feminist action can accomplish. Some of the questions we engage include:  What tools do various feminist activists take up, for what specific kinds of aims, and with what successes and why? What can we learn from the failures or exclusions of feminist activisms? What are the relationships between past or historical movements and contemporary contexts, individual and collective action, community organizing and institutions, local and global solidarities? How can feminist protest genuinely avoid divide-and-conquer politics to be the ethical, intersectional, accountable work we require of feminism in the 21st century? It is the commitment of this course that, in addition to studying feminist activism in the classroom, students engage in a Community Engagement Learning (CEL) project sustained over the course with a community organization or other partners to encourage students’ implementation of their learning -- beyond the borders of the classroom. Prerequisite(s): Women's Studies 2220E, or permission of the Department

WS 4607F THE HISTORY OF WOMEN AND GENDER RELATIONS IN AFRICA
Women in Africa today are exceedingly diverse and accomplished, despite the negative news we
read every day about violence, disease and poverty. Even those who recognize this often assume
that women’s growing influence in African societies is a recent development due to the influence
of modern liberal values. Contrary to this, in the past African women were not the victims of
male domination, but held powerful leadership roles, were strong economic contributors and
respected members of their extended families. African feminists today draw upon these
traditions as a source of empowerment. This course will examine African women’s roles in the
past as well as factors that undermined their status and changed gender relations such as slavery,
economic forces and colonialism. Prerequisite(s): Women's Studies 2220E, or permission of the Department. Previous course outline

WS 4464G GENDER AND THE ENVIRONMENT -Just added!
This course will focus on the intersections between gender, sexuality, development and environmental justice. Feminist and queer theory will be used to interrogate binary categories such as natural/unnatural, nature/culture, normal/abnormal as they relate to our understandings of “the environment.” The course will explore how racism, colonialism, imperialism and other forms of oppression have shaped and continue to shape environmental discourses. We will examine key contemporary environmental issues such as climate change; food security; the “green” economy and low-carbon development; access to water, sanitation and energy; pollution; and wildlife conservation from feminist perspectives. Course materials will include academic and non-academic literature, activist texts as well as case studies, fiction and films. Prerequisite(s): Women's Studies 2220E, or permission of the Department.

WS 1020E INTRODUCTION TO WOMEN'S STUDIES
An introductory and interdisciplinary survey of the status of women in contemporary, historical, and cross-cultural perspective, this course explores how gender and other differences are established or challenged through various institutional and individual practices. With a focus on feminist resistance to sexual, socio-cultural, economic, racial, and political oppression worldwide, we will appraise the implications of these practices for women's everyday lives.
2 lecture hours plus one hour tutorial, 1.0 course.   Course outline

WS 1021F INTRODUCTION TO SEXUALITY STUDIES
We will be introducing students to current social and political issues in sexuality studies, with a focus on contemporary issues around sexuality, including formation of sexual identities, sexual practices and politics, policing of sexuality, questions of sexual diversity, and the historical and global nature of ideas and controversies around sexuality.
2 hours plus a one hour tutorial, 0.5 course. Course outline

WS 1022G GENDER, JUSTICE AND CHANGE
The 21st century is a period of accelerating change focused around issues of gender, justice and activism. This course will introduce students to the ways in which movements for justice and change are informed by and take up gender issues in matters of education, health, poverty, globalization, the environment, etc.
2 hours plus a one hour tutorial, 0.5 course Previous course outline

WS 1024G INTRODUCTION TO EQUITY, DIVERSITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS
This introductory course surveys theory and practice in the fields of equity, diversity, and human rights. The course addresses how equity, diversity, and human rights policies and practices respond to social inequality, social difference, and unequal relations of power; as well, we will consider arguments about multiculturalism as a strategy to promote social inclusion. Towards these goals, we will take up readings about these issues from schools of thought such as: ant-racism, feminism and gender studies, sexuality, disability, education, and legal studies. In doing so, the course examines some of the following questions: How are equity, diversity and human rights shaped by political and state interests? What are (some of) the limits and possibilities of institutionalized, liberal approaches to equity and diversity? How are these approaches challenged? What does it mean to have “human rights?” And how, and by whom, are these rights contested? In addition to learning through our course readings, lectures, discussions, documentaries, and assignments, we will pay attention to media stories, human rights organizations, as well as to protests by equity-seeking groups to see how they approach the issues addressed in this course. Previous course outline

WS 2139B SOCIAL HISTORY OF WOMEN IN CANADA
Instructor: Katherine McKenna
This course is designed to be an overview of women’s history in Canada from the first days of European settlement to the end of the 20^th Century. Its focus is social history, that is, examining the realities of women’s everyday lives. One of the most informative and evocative ways of understanding women of the past is through biography, which will be a key theme throughout the course. Emphasis will be placed on examining a variety of historical sources including drawings and paintings, illustrations, photographs, oral history video and film, primary documents and written historical scholarship.  At the end, students will have a sense of how women’s diverse lived experiences have changed throughout Canadian history, and how they have remained the same. No prerequisites, 3 hours, 0.5 course.Course outline

WS 2160A INTIMATE RELATIONS: SEX, GENDER AND LOVE
Intimate Relations focuses on how expectations of intimacy and relationships rely on particular understandings of love, sex, sexuality and bodies to shape how we experience ourselves as gendered and sexual beings. The course considers how intimacy (sexual, maternal, familial, affectionate) is understood in relation to history, philosophy, health, society and popular culture.
No prerequisites 3 hours, 0.5 course. Course outline

WS 2161A WOMEN AND POPULAR CULTURE: GARBO TO GAGA
How are women represented in popular culture? Women's images in the media, from newspaper and magazines to television, film and music videos produce particular notions of what it means to be a woman, be feminine, etc. We will examine both the historical and contemporary roles of women in popular culture. 3 hours, 0.5 course. Course ourline

WS 2162B THE BODY
We will examine social and scientific constructions of the body, including concepts of beauty, health, fitness, sexuality, and questions of representation. Among other things, we may examine particular social problems, such as technologies of the body and bodily modification, ideas of health and illness, society’s difficulty with understanding the disabled body as sexual, the cultural obsession with body size, psychiatric and medical responses to people who feel that their bodily sex does not match their gender, changing ideas about beauty and attraction, and artistic conceptions, representations, and alterations of the human body.
No prerequisites, 3 hours, 0.5 course. Course outline

WS 2163B SEX, HOW TO: SEX EDUCATION, ITS HISTORY AND CONTROVERSIES 
Sex education is a controversial topic; should we even be teaching people how to have sex or how not to have sex? This course traces the history of sex education and its many controversies as well as looking at contemporary sex education practices both locally and in an international context. Course outline

WS 2164A GENDER AND FASHION 

This course is designed to give students an introduction to  the role played by fashion in the construction of gendered identities (in addition to learning about fashion history, fashion in relation to sexuality, and fashion as identity). Topics to be covered include: what clothing can tell us about empire, gender, sexuality, class, race, industry, revolution, nation-building, identity politics and globalization; fashion as art; drag queens and kings; fashion and sustainability; fashion journalism; the metrosexual; the history of the stiletto; veiling; and fashion subcultures such as goth and punk. We will also examine the trends of athleisure, anti-fashion, slow fashion, and normcore.Although the focus of much of the course will be on Western fashion, we will also look at Asian and African designers and influences (Harajuku fashion, Pei and Yamamoto; hip-hop and The Black Panther), as well as indigenous fashion. Course outline

WS 2205F MAKING MEN: CRITICAL STUDIES IN MASCULINITY
This course addresses masculinities as social constructs. It debates the theoretical and practical strongholds competing discourses have had over gender as a construct and specifically masculinities. One overarching goal of this course is to develop critical and analytical frameworks for unsettling and interrogating gender assumptions. Additionally, this course is intended to raise questions that will better enable us to construct and deconstruct what and how we come to understand masculinity, singular, as masculinities, plural. In the everyday public discourse, we are witness to a heightened awareness and growing concern, generally, to “help the boys.” From mainstream media reports, to schools, universities and education more generally, we are inundated with calls for more attention to "the boys." Though largely cloaked by concerns for performance, achievement, and gender equity, at the heart of the debate is a set of deep-seated and long-held understandings and assumptions about gender but specifically masculinity and schooling. This course provides a lens for examining masculinities in the context of media, activist organizations, daily social interactions as well as looking closely at secondary schools as a primary masculinizing institution. Our particular lens of analysis probes masculinities from various points of intersection, namely, the raced, class and gendered lives of boys and young men.
No prerequisites, 3 hours, 0.5 course. Course outlinepdf/course_outlines/20182019/WS2205F_Ylagan.pdf

WS 2220E FEMINIST THEORY AND PRACTICE ACROSS THE DISCIPLINES
(Reqiuired 2nd yr. theory course)
An examination of the implications of feminist theories and practices at work in many different disciplines, including arts, media, social sciences, health sciences, science, law. We introduce students to theoretical concepts and ask questions about the ways sex, gender and sexuality are understood and researched from a range of perspectives. Antirequisite(s): Women's Studies 2256E or Women's Studies 2257E Prerequisite(s): WS1020E, or WS1021F/G and WS1022F/G, or permission of the Department.
3 hours, 1.0 course. Course outline

WS 2225G INTRO TO GIRLHOOD STUDIES 
This course introduces students to the emerging field of Girlhood studies. We consider what it means to be a girl and how the concepts of girl and girlhood have been constructed across a variety of geographic and historical contexts, as well as how the intersections of race, class, gender, and ability have influenced these concepts. Drawing on a variety of disciplines, including literature, and history, we specifically consider girlhood through a feminist lens and examine how definitions of girl and girlhood shape individual experience, historical narratives, cultural representations, and futures
3 lecture hours, 0.5 course. Prerequisite(s): Women's Studies 1020E or 1.0 from Women's Studies 1021F/G, 1022F/G, 1023F/Gand 1024F/G. Course outline

WS 2233G Women Writing Sex: Gender Sexuality and the Body in Women’s Writing from the Global South - New Course! 
Description will be available soon. 
3 lecture hours, 0.5 course. Prerequisite(s): none

WS 2240F FOUNDATION OF FEMINIST THOUGHT
This course takes up foundational readings in the history of feminist thought from early feminists’ calls for women's equality and rights to postmodern understandings of gender. The course will consider how feminist thought has emerged, developed and evolved in response to various historical, intellectual, social, political and cultural challenges. Antirequisite: WS2250E. No prerequisites.
3 hours, 0.5 course. Course outline

WS 2244 WOMEN AND HEALTH
This course takes a critical, interdisciplinary approach to understanding women’s health. The course is organized into six modules with each module covering a topic area that is relevant to women and health. The topics covered in this course are:The Medicalization of Women’s Health; Representing Gender and Women’s Health; The Politics of Reproduction; Diversity and Women’s Experiences of Health Care; The Social Determinants of Women’s Health; and Women, Work and Health.
Antirequisite: Women’s Studies 2154. No prerequisites.Course outline

WS 2259F Reproducing Race: Race, Reproduction, Parenting, and Families.
Race is widely understood to be a social construction. Therefore, we can ask how some social practices help to construct or ‘reproduce’ race, and how others deconstruct it. This course centres on historical and contemporary practices that concern race and the formation of families, and the having and rearing of children. And it asks how these practices reproduce race, but also how they can deconstruct it, and how well they might align as a result with anti-racist politics. Among specific topics that we will cover are anti-miscegenation laws, race and online dating, eugenics and race, the race selection of gametes acquired for one’s reproductive use, race in global commercial contract pregnancy, transracial adoption, and the instilling of racial identities in one’s children. The course is interdisciplinary, drawing from disciplines such as women’s studies, history, philosophy, and critical race theory. We will also use contemporary media and film.Course Outline

WS 2260 WOMEN, LAW AND SOCIAL CHANGE 
This course is an introduction to various areas of law which affect women in specific ways. It will examine laws relating to sex discrimination, employment, sexual harassment, rape and sexual assault, abortion, marriage, divorce, child custody, inheritance, pornography and prostitution. It will explore topical debates in these various areas of law and how law can be used as a strategy for bringing about social change.
No prerequisites. 3 hours, half course. Antirequisite(s): Women's Studies 2270A/B. Course outline

WS 2263G INTERSECTIONS: RACE, CLASS AND SEXUALITY
Are Latinas inherently sexy and sensual women? Are poor people, especially nonwhite people, lazy and shiftless? Do Aboriginal women make “bad” mothers? Are Asian men less “manly” than black men? These questions, among others, will be discussed in this course as we investigate the intersections between race, class, and sexuality from an interdisciplinary perspective. One of the main objectives of this course will be to unravel how human beings become categories that expand beyond the seemingly binary divide between “the sexes,” “the races,” and the “haves and have-notes.” Instead, we will consider the real-life experiences of “Muslim women” or “two-spirit people” through an examination of texts from the fields of anthropology, cultural studies, feminist studies, and queer studies, among others. In addition, our examination of products from popular culture, such as films, television shows, music videos, and clips from the internet, will provide thoughtful, and often provocative, examples of the complex representations of race, gender, class, and sexuality in our society.
Prerequisite: Women's Studies 1020E or Women’s Studies 1021F/G plus Women's Studies 1022F/G, or permission of the Department. Previous course outline

WS 2273E SEXUAL SUBJECTS
This interdisciplinary course focuses on sexuality as a subject of study and considers how sexuality defines individual and social subjectivity. The course will explore sexual subjects within a theoretical context and might include sexology, psychoanalysis, queer theory, feminism, the history of sexual identity, and its representation in cultural production.
No prerequisites. 3 hours, 1.0 course Course outline

WS 2274G INTRO TO TRANSGENDER STUDIES
This course will focus on trans identities, history, theory and politics from the perspectives of feminist, queer, and emerging trans theory. Topics may include transphobia and oppression of trans people, sex and gender change, transvestism, gender passing, transgender children and their families, and intersectionalities with sexuality, race, class, ability, etc.
3 lecture hours, 0.5 course. Antirequisite(s): Women's Studies 4460F/G if taught in Winter 2013; Women's Studies 3343F/G if taught in Fall 2015. Prerequisite(s): Women's Studies 1020E or 1.0 from Women's Studies 1021F/G, 1022F/G, 1023F/Gand 1024F/G.

WS 2275F HETEROSEXUALITIES
This course is interested in the interdisciplinary study of heterosexualities. Topics covered will include: social and historical productions of (hetero)sexualities; cultural performances of (hetero)sexualities; heterosexual pleasures and dangers; heterosexed pornographies and sex-work; erotic (hetero)sexual power play; and heterosexualities that cross the boundaries of (cis)gender, race, age, ability, class and nation, 3 lecture hours, 0.5 course.

WS 2283G DESIRING WOMEN
This course looks at how female sexuality and subjectivity is experienced, understood, represented and theorized across a range of disciplines; these may include art, literature, media, psychology, anthropology, sociology, biology and medicine. It explores how female sexual desires, practices and identities are shaped in relation to individual, cultural and social meanings of female sexuality. No prerequisites. 3 hours, 0.5 course

WS 3153F BAD GIRLS: DISSIDENT WOMEN AND POPULAR CULTURE
This course examines our fascination with the figure of the “bad girl” in popular culture. We will concentrate on theoretical work which informs the relationship between popular culture and dissident sexuality in order to look more closely at how adolescent and young adult female bodies are created, controlled and contested. 3.0 hours, 0.5 course. Course outline.
Prerequisite(s): Women's Studies 2253E or 2273E or 2220E or permission of the Department.

WS 3173F QUEER THEORY
What is queer theory, where did it come from, how is it changing? Examining key foundational texts in queer theory, the contexts for its emergence, and debates over its contemporary usefulness and direction, students in this course will trace the development of queer theory from Foucault to the present day.
3 hours, 0.5 course. Prerequisite: Women's Studies 2273E or permission of the department. Course outline.

WS 3312G GENDER AND THE ENVIRONMENT
This course examines the relationship between gender and the environment, including the disproportionate impact of environmental degradation on women and children, gender and agricultural practices and policies, land tenure and access to and control of resources, and the role of gender in environmental activism at both local and global levels. 3 lecture hours, 0.5 course. Prerequisite(s): Women's Studies 2220E or Women's Studies 2273E or permission of the department. Course outline

WS 3321F ADVANCED TOPICS IN FEMINIST THEORY AND PRACTICE IN THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES (Required 3rd yr. theory course)
This course applies a wide range of feminist theories and critical practices, including postmodern and queer theories, literary criticism, psychoanalysis, and postcolonial studies, to a diverse array of artistic practices, including literature, film, and the performing and visual arts.
3 hours, 0.5 course. Prerequisite(s): WS2220E, WS 2256E, or WS2257E, or permission of the department.
Course outline

WS 3322G ADVANCED TOPICS IN FEMINIST THEORY AND PRACTICE IN SOCIAL SCIENCES
(Required 3rd yr. theory course)
This course is an advanced examination of the application of feminist theories and practices to topics in the social sciences. Focus will include epistemological and methodological questions raised in feminist engagement across the various social science disciplines. Topics addressed may include a range of social-economic, cultural, political, and policy issues. 3 hours, 0.5 course Prerequisite(s): WS2220E, WS 2256E, or WS2257E, or permission of the department.

WS 3324F CONTEMPORARY TOPICS IN CRITICAL RACE STUDIES
Focussing on the changing meanings of race and racism in the twenty-first century, this course discusses and analyzes conceptual frameworks for understanding the multi-faceted and intersectional dimensions of race and racism, and examines how these inform social justice movements and other initiatives that seek to challenge institutional racism and racial violence. Antirequisite(s): Women's Studies 3331F/G if taught in Fall 2015. Prerequisite(s): Women's Studies 2220E or Women's Studies 2273E. Course outline

WS 3345F QUEER CINEMA (crosslisted with Film 3352F)
This course will explore the history, politics, and aesthetics of queer film, particularly the representation of queer culture and identity as well as the policing of non-normative sexualities. Course topics may include: Hollywood and the Celluloid Closet, queer independent cinema, and transgender film.  Antirequisite(s): Film Studies 2259F/G. Extra Information: 2 lecture/seminar hours, 1 3-hour lecture/screening. 0.5 course

WS 3350G FEMINISM ACROSS BORDERS
Is an inclusive feminism possible? Is a feminism that transcends borders and embraces a
broader, more global spectrum of feminist voices than ever before feasible? Reading feminist
authors from a diversity of backgrounds, we examine the attractions and challenges of a global
feminism.

WS 3357G WOMEN FILMMAKERS 
(cross-listed with Spanish 3901G and Film Studies 3311G)
This course will explore the notion of film authorship in relation to its utterances and implications when associated to the praxis of contemporary women film directors, from the early 1960s to the present. While troubling the notion of women’s cinema, its definition, limits and limitations, a wide range of case studies – films emerging from dissimilar contexts of production and reception – will be mostly read and discussed in the light of feminist approaches to questions about gender and representation. In this sense, the course will also offer a historical and critical overview of feminist scholarship within film studies and of the ongoing debates in this area of study. 0.5 course

WS 3362G COMPARING WOMEN'S POLITICAL LEADERSHIP IN THE PROVINCES: KATHLEEN WYNNE, CHRISTY CLARK AND RACHEL NOTLEY - New course! Crosslisted with PoliSci 3391G
This course compares provincial political structures through a feminist lens, especially regarding the premier’s office and the party system. The course centers on two questions: why have female Canadian political leaders been successful recently in rising to lead some provincial governments in Canada; and once in office, how do they exercise leadership?  

WS 4460F (M)AD WOMEN: (POST)-FEMINISM, ADVERTISING AND ANALYSIS (grad/undergrad split)
What is the relationship between feminism and advertising?  In what ways have women been involved in the advertising industry?  How has the advertising industry historically viewed and valued women as consumers?  How have activists used media reform to advance feminist aims? How has advertising responded to decades of feminist critique?  In this course, students will explore and discuss the representation of women in advertising, women’s employment in the advertising industry, the political economy of gender in audience studies, post-feminist advertising themes of empowerment, choice, diversity, and inclusion, and the relationship between activism and the a-political nature of post-feminism.

WS 4456F FROM GOLDEN GIRLS TO RAGING GRANNIES: FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES ON AGING 
Discussions about age relations and aging have long been inconsequential if not absent in the feminist imaginary. For years, feminism has been rightly accused of neglecting age as a social location when commenting on interlocking forms of oppression. Although several anthologies have attempted to address this gap, we still see its absence in Women’s Studies. In this course, we will attend to this gap by approaching the aging body and age relations from a feminist gerontological perspective to demonstrate how and why age, as a socio-political location, matters to gender relations. To this end, students will be introduced to an array of discourses that govern aging bodies to explore how hegemonic gender and (hetero)sexual norms are reproduced and/or contested.

WS 4461G GENDER IS BURNING: CONTEMPORARY TRANS TOPICS
This course provides an in-depth examination of key theories in trans studies. The course will begin by introducing students to the emergence of trans studies as a field, out of, and alongside, feminist and queer theory, while also diverging from these fields. Subsequent weeks will focus on specific approaches to theorizing trans subjectivities and experiences including psychoanalytic approaches, phenomenological approaches, pathologization, transfeminism, trans political economy, trans necropolitics, trans temporalities, somatechnics, decolonizing approaches, and tranimalities. The course will provide students with the opportunity to focus specifically on trans theory as it has emerged from the humanities, and foster the application of these theories to contemporary topics pertaining to trans issues and gender issues more broadly.

WS 4607G THE HISTORY OF WOMEN AND GENDER RELATIONS IN AFRICA
Women in Africa today are exceedingly diverse and accomplished, despite the negative news we
read every day about violence, disease and poverty. Even those who recognize this often assume
that women’s growing influence in African societies is a recent development due to the influence
of modern liberal values. Contrary to this, in the past African women were not the victims of
male domination, but held powerful leadership roles, were strong economic contributors and
respected members of their extended families. African feminists today draw upon these
traditions as a source of empowerment. This course will examine African women’s roles in the
past as well as factors that undermined their status and changed gender relations such as slavery,
economic forces and colonialism.  
Course outline

WS 1020E INTRODUCTION TO WOMEN'S STUDIES
An introductory and interdisciplinary survey of the status of women in contemporary, historical, and cross-cultural perspective, this course explores how gender and other differences are established or challenged through various institutional and individual practices. With a focus on feminist resistance to sexual, socio-cultural, economic, racial, and political oppression worldwide, we will appraise the implications of these practices for women's everyday lives.
2 lecture hours plus one hour tutorial, 1.0 course.   Previous course outline

WS 1021F INTRODUCTION TO SEXUALITY STUDIES
We will be introducing students to current social and political issues in sexuality studies, with a focus on contemporary issues around sexuality, including formation of sexual identities, sexual practices and politics, policing of sexuality, questions of sexual diversity, and the historical and global nature of ideas and controversies around sexuality.
2 hours plus a one hour tutorial, 0.5 course  Previous course outline

WS 1022G GENDER, JUSTICE AND CHANGE
The 21st century is a period of accelerating change focused around issues of gender, justice and activism. This course will introduce students to the ways in which movements for justice and change are informed by and take up gender issues in matters of education, health, poverty, globalization, the environment, etc.
2 hours plus a one hour tutorial, 0.5 course Previous course outline

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WS 1024G INTRODUCTION TO EQUITY, DIVERSITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS
This introductory course surveys theory and practice in the fields of equity, diversity, and human rights. The course addresses how equity, diversity, and human rights policies and practices respond to social inequality, social difference, and unequal relations of power; as well, we will consider arguments about multiculturalism as a strategy to promote social inclusion. Towards these goals, we will take up readings about these issues from schools of thought such as: ant-racism, feminism and gender studies, sexuality, disability, education, and legal studies. In doing so, the course examines some of the following questions: How are equity, diversity and human rights shaped by political and state interests? What are (some of) the limits and possibilities of institutionalized, liberal approaches to equity and diversity? How are these approaches challenged? What does it mean to have “human rights?” And how, and by whom, are these rights contested? In addition to learning through our course readings, lectures, discussions, documentaries, and assignments, we will pay attention to media stories, human rights organizations, as well as to protests by equity-seeking groups to see how they approach the issues addressed in this course. Course outline

WS 2160B INTIMATE RELATIONS: SEX, GENDER AND LOVE
Intimate Relations focuses on how expectations of intimacy and relationships rely on particular understandings of love, sex, sexuality and bodies to shape how we experience ourselves as gendered and sexual beings. The course considers how intimacy (sexual, maternal, familial, affectionate) is understood in relation to history, philosophy, health, society and popular culture.
No prerequisites 3 hours, 0.5 course. Previous course outline

WS 2161A WOMEN AND POPULAR CULTURE: GARBO TO GAGA
How are women represented in popular culture? Women's images in the media, from newspaper and magazines to television, film and music videos produce particular notions of what it means to be a woman, be feminine, etc. We will examine both the historical and contemporary roles of women in popular culture. 3 hours, 0.5 course 

WS 2162A THE BODY
We will examine social and scientific constructions of the body, including concepts of beauty, health, fitness, sexuality, and questions of representation. Among other things, we may examine particular social problems, such as technologies of the body and bodily modification, ideas of health and illness, society’s difficulty with understanding the disabled body as sexual, the cultural obsession with body size, psychiatric and medical responses to people who feel that their bodily sex does not match their gender, changing ideas about beauty and attraction, and artistic conceptions, representations, and alterations of the human body.
No prerequisites, 3 hours, 0.5 course. Previous course outline

WS 2163B SEX, HOW TO: SEX EDUCATION, ITS HISTORY AND CONTROVERSIES - New course!
Sex education is a controversial topic; should we even be teaching people how to have sex or how not to have sex? This course traces the history of sex education and its many controversies as well as looking at contemporary sex education practices both locally and in an international context. Course outline

WS 2164A GENDER AND FASHION 
This course examines the world of fashion from a critical feminist perspective. Topics covered may include fashion’s role in gender and sexuality identity; the relationship between women’s fashions and women’s liberation; the history, sociology, aesthetics of fashion; the mass production of fashion; and feminist concerns about exploitation and sweatshop labour. 2 hours of in class time, 1 hour online, 0.5 course Please note: Prerequisites have been lifted for the 2017-2018 enrollment period. Previous course outline

WS 2205F MAKING MEN: CRITICAL STUDIES IN MASCULINITY
This course addresses masculinities as social constructs. It debates the theoretical and practical strongholds competing discourses have had over gender as a construct and specifically masculinities. One overarching goal of this course is to develop critical and analytical frameworks for unsettling and interrogating gender assumptions. Additionally, this course is intended to raise questions that will better enable us to construct and deconstruct what and how we come to understand masculinity, singular, as masculinities, plural. In the everyday public discourse, we are witness to a heightened awareness and growing concern, generally, to “help the boys.” From mainstream media reports, to schools, universities and education more generally, we are inundated with calls for more attention to "the boys." Though largely cloaked by concerns for performance, achievement, and gender equity, at the heart of the debate is a set of deep-seated and long-held understandings and assumptions about gender but specifically masculinity and schooling. This course provides a lens for examining masculinities in the context of media, activist organizations, daily social interactions as well as looking closely at secondary schools as a primary masculinizing institution. Our particular lens of analysis probes masculinities from various points of intersection, namely, the raced, class and gendered lives of boys and young men.
No prerequisites, 3 hours, 0.5 course. Course outline

WS 2211F GIRLS ON FIRE - New course! 
Many YA dystopian novels published recently feature strong female protagonists who openly rebel against the totalitarian societies they live in. In this course, we will consider how the recent spate of Young Adult dystopian fiction simultaneously subverts and affirms gendered expectations facing many young women in the 21st century. Course outline

WS 2220E FEMINIST THEORY AND PRACTICE ACROSS THE DISCIPLINES
(Reqiuired 2nd yr. theory course)
An examination of the implications of feminist theories and practices at work in many different disciplines, including arts, media, social sciences, health sciences, science, law. We introduce students to theoretical concepts and ask questions about the ways sex, gender and sexuality are understood and researched from a range of perspectives. Antirequisite(s): Women's Studies 2256E or Women's Studies 2257E Prerequisite(s): WS1020E, or WS1021F/G and WS1022F/G, or permission of the Department.
3 hours, 1.0 course. Previous course outline

WS 2225G INTRO TO GIRLHOOD STUDIES 
This course introduces students to the emerging field of Girlhood studies. We consider what it means to be a girl and how the concepts of girl and girlhood have been constructed across a variety of geographic and historical contexts, as well as how the intersections of race, class, gender, and ability have influenced these concepts. Drawing on a variety of disciplines, including literature, and history, we specifically consider girlhood through a feminist lens and examine how definitions of girl and girlhood shape individual experience, historical narratives, cultural representations, and futures
3 lecture hours, 0.5 course. Prerequisite(s): Women's Studies 1020E or 1.0 from Women's Studies 1021F/G, 1022F/G, 1023F/Gand 1024F/G. Course outline

WS 2240G FOUNDATION OF FEMINIST THOUGHT
This course takes up foundational readings in the history of feminist thought from early feminists’ calls for women's equality and rights to postmodern understandings of gender. The course will consider how feminist thought has emerged, developed and evolved in response to various historical, intellectual, social, political and cultural challenges. Antirequisite: WS2250E. No prerequisites.
3 hours, 0.5 course

WS 2244 WOMEN AND HEALTH
This course takes a critical, interdisciplinary approach to understanding women’s health. The course is organized into six modules with each module covering a topic area that is relevant to women and health. The topics covered in this course are:The Medicalization of Women’s Health; Representing Gender and Women’s Health; The Politics of Reproduction; Diversity and Women’s Experiences of Health Care; The Social Determinants of Women’s Health; and Women, Work and Health.
Antirequisite: Women’s Studies 2154. No prerequisites. Previous course outline

WS 2259G Reproducing Race: Race, Reproduction, Parenting, and Families.
Race is widely understood to be a social construction. Therefore, we can ask how some social practices help to construct or ‘reproduce’ race, and how others deconstruct it. This course centres on historical and contemporary practices that concern race and the formation of families, and the having and rearing of children. And it asks how these practices reproduce race, but also how they can deconstruct it, and how well they might align as a result with anti-racist politics. Among specific topics that we will cover are anti-miscegenation laws, race and online dating, eugenics and race, the race selection of gametes acquired for one’s reproductive use, race in global commercial contract pregnancy, transracial adoption, and the instilling of racial identities in one’s children. The course is interdisciplinary, drawing from disciplines such as women’s studies, history, philosophy, and critical race theory. We will also use contemporary media and film.

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WS 2263F INTERSECTIONS: RACE, CLASS AND SEXUALITY
Are Latinas inherently sexy and sensual women? Are poor people, especially nonwhite people, lazy and shiftless? Do Aboriginal women make “bad” mothers? Are Asian men less “manly” than black men? These questions, among others, will be discussed in this course as we investigate the intersections between race, class, and sexuality from an interdisciplinary perspective. One of the main objectives of this course will be to unravel how human beings become categories that expand beyond the seemingly binary divide between “the sexes,” “the races,” and the “haves and have-notes.” Instead, we will consider the real-life experiences of “Muslim women” or “two-spirit people” through an examination of texts from the fields of anthropology, cultural studies, feminist studies, and queer studies, among others. In addition, our examination of products from popular culture, such as films, television shows, music videos, and clips from the internet, will provide thoughtful, and often provocative, examples of the complex representations of race, gender, class, and sexuality in our society.
Prerequisite: Women's Studies 1020E or Women’s Studies 1021F/G plus Women's Studies 1022F/G, or permission of the Department. Previous course outline

WS 2270B WOMEN, LAW AND SOCIAL CHANGE 
This course is an introduction to various areas of law which affect women in specific ways. It will examine laws relating to sex discrimination, employment, sexual harassment, rape and sexual assault, abortion, marriage, divorce, child custody, inheritance, pornography and prostitution. It will explore topical debates in these various areas of law and how law can be used as a strategy for bringing about social change.
No prerequisites. 3 hours, half course. Previous course outline

WS 2273E SEXUAL SUBJECTS
This interdisciplinary course focuses on sexuality as a subject of study and considers how sexuality defines individual and social subjectivity. The course will explore sexual subjects within a theoretical context and might include sexology, psychoanalysis, queer theory, feminism, the history of sexual identity, and its representation in cultural production.
No prerequisites. 3 hours, 1.0 course Course outline

WS 2274G INTRO TO TRANSGENDER STUDIES
This course will focus on trans identities, history, theory and politics from the perspectives of feminist, queer, and emerging trans theory. Topics may include transphobia and oppression of trans people, sex and gender change, transvestism, gender passing, transgender children and their families, and intersectionalities with sexuality, race, class, ability, etc.
3 lecture hours, 0.5 course. Antirequisite(s): Women's Studies 4460F/G if taught in Winter 2013; Women's Studies 3343F/G if taught in Fall 2015. Prerequisite(s): Women's Studies 1020E or 1.0 from Women's Studies 1021F/G, 1022F/G, 1023F/Gand 1024F/G.

WS 2283F DESIRING WOMEN
This course looks at how female sexuality and subjectivity is experienced, understood, represented and theorized across a range of disciplines; these may include art, literature, media, psychology, anthropology, sociology, biology and medicine. It explores how female sexual desires, practices and identities are shaped in relation to individual, cultural and social meanings of female sexuality. No prerequisites. 3 hours, 0.5 course

WS 3133G LESBIAN LIVES AND CULTURES
This course will explore what it means to identify as a lesbian today. With the move away from identity politics and the ascendance of queer as a challenge to identity categories, it will consider the place of lesbianism in contemporary North American culture and more globally. Attention will be paid to a variety of aspects of lesbian lives and to contemporary forms of lesbian experiences in relation to their historical antecedents. Themes will include intersectionality, activism, sex, literature, art and politics.
3 lecture hours, 0.5 course. Prerequisite(s): Women's Studies 2273E or Women's Studies 2220E or permission of the department. previous course outline

WS 3173F QUEER THEORY
What is queer theory, where did it come from, how is it changing? Examining key foundational texts in queer theory, the contexts for its emergence, and debates over its contemporary usefulness and direction, students in this course will trace the development of queer theory from Foucault to the present day.
3 hours, 0.5 course. Prerequisite: Women's Studies 2273E or permission of the department. previous course outline

WS 3305G CULTURE JAM: GENDER, SEXUALITY AND CULTURAL RESISTANCE
While popular culture operates to naturalize and distribute dominant discourses about gender and sexuality, it is also a fertile space through which resistance can be enacted. This course examines “common sense” representations of gender and sexuality within Western popular culture and the ways these representations have been confronted and contested.

WS 3321F ADVANCED TOPICS IN FEMINIST THEORY AND PRACTICE IN THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES
(Required 3rd yr. theory course)
This course applies a wide range of feminist theories and critical practices, including postmodern and queer theories, literary criticism, psychoanalysis, and postcolonial studies, to a diverse array of artistic practices, including literature, film, and the performing and visual arts.
3 hours, 0.5 course. Prerequisite(s): WS2220E, WS 2256E, or WS2257E, or permission of the department.

WS 3322G ADVANCED TOPICS IN FEMINIST THEORY AND PRACTICE IN SOCIAL SCIENCES
(Required 3rd yr. theory course)
This course is an advanced examination of the application of feminist theories and practices to topics in the social sciences. Focus will include epistemological and methodological questions raised in feminist engagement across the various social science disciplines. Topics addressed may include a range of social-economic, cultural, political, and policy issues. 3 hours, 0.5 course Prerequisite(s): WS2220E, WS 2256E, or WS2257E, or permission of the department.

WS 3350F FEMINISM ACROSS BORDERS
Is an inclusive feminism possible? Is a feminism that transcends borders and embraces a broader, more global spectrum of feminist voices than ever before feasible? Reading feminist authors from a diversity of backgrounds, we examine the attractions and challenges of a global feminism. Course outline

WS 3355E FEMINIST ACTIVISM - New course!

This course examines a variety of issues and interventions to understand what feminist action can accomplish. Some of the questions we engage include:  What tools do various feminist activists take up, for what specific kinds of aims, and with what successes and why? What can we learn from the failures or exclusions of feminist activisms? What are the relationships between past or historical movements and contemporary contexts, individual and collective action, community organizing and institutions, local and global solidarities? How can feminist protest genuinely avoid divide-and-conquer politics to be the ethical, intersectional, accountable work we require of feminism in the 21^st century? It is the commitment of this course that, in addition to studying feminist activism in the classroom, students engage in a Community Engagement Learning (CEL) project sustained over the course with a community organization or other partners to encourage students’ implementation of their learning -- beyond the borders of the classroom. Please note that the course is currently capped at twenty-two students for CEL group projects. As of July 21^st, registration will open to students wishing to take it with an alternate assignment rather than working with, and completing a project for, community partners. Please note, you are in class for two hours a week. For the third hour, you are expected to do CEL project related work or work on your alternative assignment. Course outline

WS 3357G WOMEN FILMMAKERS - New course!
(cross-listed with Spanish 3901G and Film Studies 3311G)
This course will explore the notion of film authorship in relation to its utterances and implications when associated to the praxis of contemporary women film directors, from the early 1960s to the present. While troubling the notion of women’s cinema, its definition, limits and limitations, a wide range of case studies – films emerging from dissimilar contexts of production and reception – will be mostly read and discussed in the light of feminist approaches to questions about gender and representation. In this sense, the course will also offer a historical and critical overview of feminist scholarship within film studies and of the ongoing debates in this area of study. 0.5 course

WS 3358F VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN 
Gender-based violence was one of the earliest issues identified by feminists as a focus for grass-roots organization and continues today to be an important subject for community work, research and political struggle. This seminar will provide an overview of both the theory and practice of feminist anti-violence work locally and globally. This course will also examine key aspects of these debates in Canada and the United States, as well as in other parts of the world. These theoretical issues will also be connected with practice, that is, with the front-line work that is undertaken in the community to counter violence against women and their children. Course outline

WS 3362G COMPARING WOMEN'S POLITICAL LEADERSHIP IN THE PROVINCES: KATHLEEN WYNNE, CHRISTY CLARK AND RACHEL NOTLEY - New course!
This course compares provincial political structures through a feminist lens, especially regarding the premier’s office and the party system. The course centers on two questions: why have female Canadian political leaders been successful recently in rising to lead some provincial governments in Canada; and once in office, how do they exercise leadership?  

WS 4458F STORYTELLING FOR CHANGE: THE ART OF DECOLONIAL FEMINIST PRAXIS.
This methodologies course brings together Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholarship to critically examine autoethnography as a feminist practice. In doing so, we theorize storytelling as a method of critical inquiry and a catalyst for social transformation. As Cree scholar Neal McLeod contends, storytelling offers a way to better understand the world around us and to question the injustices inflicted upon us (2007). With this in mind, in this class we consider the relationship between auto/biographical photography and social justice activism, particularly with regard to issues stemming from the ongoing legacies of settler colonialism in Canada.

WS 4459G BEYOND GI JANE: WOMEN'S ROLES IN WAR AND ARMED CONFLICT 
This course examines the myriad different, often overlapping roles and experiences of women during wars, stressing how they can be active agents rather than only passive bystanders or victims.  It explores how other identity categories such as nationality, ethnicity and race combine with gender to shape women’s wartime experiences, showing how adding a gender analysis complicates and deepens our understanding of war's impact.

WS 4464G GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT: THEORY, PRACTICE, ADVOCACY -New course!
This course will provide an introduction to the theory and practice of gender and development. Course content is informed by the interests and needs of future scholars and practitioners - i.e. students who hope to engage in research, project design and implementation, policy analysis, monitoring and evaluation, advocacy and/or networking in development or a closely related domain. A few readings and lectures will be devoted to providing students with a historical perspective on the evolution of the theory of gender and development. The rest of the course will focus almost exclusively on key contemporary gender issues in development. The course seeks to provide students with a strong theoretical and conceptual grounding in gender and development as well as applied skills to work as a development professional. Students will study development policy and learn tools and methodologies that will enable them to pursue careers as gender equality practitioners with the United Nations system, other intergovernmental organizations, development-oriented state agencies, NGOs and other civil society organizations, bilateral and multi-lateral agencies, and private foundations.