| source University of Toronto, Mississauga (X) |
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department Women and Gender Studies (X) |
This introductory course provides an interdisciplinary overview of the historical 'waves' of women's movements for equality in a global context and background to the development of Women/Gender Studies as a site of learning and feminist inquiry. It incorporates study of the themes and debates concerning the socially constructed categories of femininity, masculinity and gender and presents contemporary instances of these theories. [
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This course explores the forms and functions of popular culture and its representation and understanding of the social category of women. It examines specific media forms including, but not limited to, film, song, visual arts, music, video, television, advertising and new media forms. It critically analyzes the impact of these portrayals on women in society while examining the cultural constructions of race, sexuality, class and ability. [
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This course covers a wide range of issues relating to female participation in public and private sectors of the today's Canadian workforce. It examines the relevance of education, perceptions, sexuality and family issues. Services and infrastructure, as well as collective bargaining are also addressed. [
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This courses provides a richly rewarding opportunity for students in their second year to work in the research project of a professor in return for 299Y course credit. Students enrolled have an opportunity to become involved in original research, learn research methods and share in the excitement and discovery of acquiring new knowledge. Participating faculty members post their project descriptions for the following summer and fall-winter sessions in early February and students are invited to apply in early March. See
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This course will examine feminist thought with a focus on asymmetrical power relations that exist for women from around the world. It will offer an analysis of different feminist movements, paying attention to the intersections between feminist thought and other liberatory movements that address race, class, sexual orientation and able-bodiness. [
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The course explores historical and contemporary debates regarding the construction of gender in Islam. It examines historic and literary representations, ethnographic narratives, legal and human rights discourses, the politics of veiling, and Islamic feminism. This course situates Muslim women as complex, multidimensional actors engaged in knowledge production and political and feminist struggles, as opposed to the static, victim-centered, Orientalist images that have regained currency in the representation of Muslim women in the post 9/11 era. [
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This course examines the process of migration to Canada from a gender perspective, noting the interplay between structural impediments and women's own agency. Historical perspectives on migration and government policy, and on ways women have rebuilt lives and shaped communities. [
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A special topic by guest instructor. Topics vary from year to year. Check the web site for current offerings. [
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This course's central focus is an examination of the way race and gender operate together in structuring social inequality. It offers the analytical tools for exploring the interconnections between race and gender, along with other systems of domination, and incorporates perspectives from women of colour and from women in the global "South". [
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Feminist theories and frameworks examining the interconnections between women, health and biomedicine in North America and transnationally. [
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Examines the diversity and shared experiences of women in western and non-western societies. This is primarily a history course, supplemented with some contemporary perspectives. It compares women in diverse economic, cultural and religious settings. [
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An introduction to some of the main concerns and debates associated with post-colonialism. Historical exploration of how subordination was forged and resisted in specific colonial settings. Examination of nationalist discourses, diasporic spaces, and feminisms. [
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This course examines philosophical, psychoanalytic and literary texts on love, passion, and desire from a gender studies perspective. Theoretical in "ethos", the course seeks to understand the role of love in the construction of gendered identity and sexuality. It explores, among other things, the tension between the notion of love as a threat to the integrity of the self on the one hand and the ideal of love as a site of psychic, bodily, and spiritual rebirth on the other. [
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An opportunity to carry out an extended research project under the supervision of a faculty member. A proposal must be presented to the faculty member and consent obtained before the end of the July registration period.
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An opportunity to carry out an extended research project under the supervision of a faculty member. A proposal must be presented to the faculty member and consent obtained before the end of the July registration.
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A special topic by a guest instructor. Topics vary from year to year. Check the web site for information about this offering each term. [
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The practicum allows advanced WGS students to combine theory and practice through part-time unpaid placement with a community agency, government body, educational or social change organization.
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This course offers a critical overview of contemporary theories of sexuality. Topics include heterosexuality, homosexuality, and bisexuality; transgenderism and transsexuality; essentialism and constructivism; desire, pleasure, fantasy and ideology; normativity and resistance; performativity and queer theory; as well as emotional risk and vulnerability. [
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This course examines the ambivalent relationship between feminist theory and popular culture. Major themes include: the visual construction of the gendered, sexualized, and racialized subject; power and ideology; the gaze, desire, and fetishization; fantasy, seduction, and idealization; as well as the possibility of resistant and/or counter hegemonic interpretations. [
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