Courses

This course examines key concepts, debates, methodologies, and theoretical directions in the history of women, genders and sexualities from a transnational and intersectional perspective. It focuses on the dialogue between gender history and social history and asks how social movements have shaped the questions historians ask and how gender articulates with major analytic categories including class relations and racial formation.

Offers an analysis of contemporary feminist theoretical debates in the program’s fields of specialization: Cultural and Literary Studies, Performance and Fines Arts; Diaspora, Transnational and Global Studies; Histories; Politics, Economies and Societies; Race; Sexualities; Theories and Methods. Required course for all MA students.

This course is designed for incoming Master’s students. It provides a supportive learning environment to develop research and writing skills appropriate to the discipline.

Explores the relationship among theory, methodology and research methods, prepares students to identify, critique and assess the appropriateness of selected research methods and reviews some of the current debates on feminist methodologies. Required course for all PhD students.

This PhD course has two objectives: to provide advanced scholarship in feminist epistemologies and theories to prepare PhD students for their comprehensive exams and dissertations, and to engage critically with theoretical issues pertaining to students’ research interests.

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Theory on mothering and motherhood has emerged as a distinct boy of knowledge within motherhood studies and feminist theory more generally. This course examines the rich and diverse tradition of maternal theory that has evolved over the last thirty years

This course examines the contemporary articulation and organization of sexual identities and rights in the developing world, and considers how interventions by international agencies, nation-states and advocacy groups have informed/been informed by racial and gender politics, and notions of citizenship.

: Perceiving Women. This course explores literature in feminist anthropology during the past twenty years. Major theoretical contributions and debates discussed include issues that dominated the field during the 1970’s (women in the ethnographic literature; the public/private dichotomy; male dominance; impact of colonialism) as well as current concerns regarding feminist methodology, cultural constructions of gender and the female body, and women’s resistance. (Same as Women’s Studies 6301.03.) Professor Romalis

Directed Reading

Directed Reading

This course is designed to consider current debates about health and care within a feminist political economy framework. The focus will be Canada but a Canada located within an international context. Of course students will be invited to introduce other perspectives and other countries into the readings, discussions and their papers.

Presents students with an overview of the fields of specialization available in this program and introduces them to current critical issues and debates. It also deals with professional development, such as preparing grant applications, conference papers and articles.

An introduction to the histories, theories, concepts and praxis of Black Feminism, as produced through intersectional struggles around race, class gender and sexuality. It considers shifts in the articulation of Black feminisms across geography, culture and time, and encourages further research into the specificities of Black Canadian feminism.

This course uses a transnational feminist lens to examine the contested relationship between political violence and how it is remembered and memorialized, within histories of colonial and imperial power. It examines violence in-context, in relation to indigeneity, racialization, gender, class, sexuality, and highlights the transnational dimensions of memory practices through the traveling of tropes, signs, claims and power across borders.

This graduate level seminar for MA and Ph.Dstudentsisintended to critically discuss transnational feminism’s agenda and its impact on women in the global Souththroughadecolonial lens. It addresses crucial questions about decolonizing knowledge and the agency of women in the global South.

This course will provide students with a graduate level seminar and discussion space to articulate and develop a deeper understanding of the relationship between Islamophobia or/and anti-Muslim racism and gender. We will discuss the historical roots and contemporary manifestation of anti-Muslim racism and how it enables the production of gender representations and stereotypes, as well as different types of resistance to this racism and its consequences, including by looking at the work done by Islamic feminists.

This course focuses on the area of fat cultures and fat studies. Students learn about size politics from a variety of historical and contemporary assigned sources, including academic, activist, and digital material. This course examines fat studies scholarship, activism and cultural production through queer, Indigenous, anti-racist, critical disability and feminist theoretical frameworks. Students will be required to have feminist studies course experience at the discretion of the course director.