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WGST 201: An Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies introduces students to the long tradition of feminist theorizing and activism used to identify and challenge patriarchal cultural traditions and their resulting gender inequities and oppressions.

Unit 1

Gosselin, C. (2006). Remaking waves: The Québec women’s movement in the 1950s and 1960s. Canadian Woman Studies, 25(3/4), 34–39. https://cws.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/cws/article/view/5881
Hamilton, S. (1991). Our mothers grand and great: Black women of Nova Scotia. Canadian Woman Studies, 11(3), 45–48. https://cws.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/cws/article/view/10861
Bromley, V., & Ahmad, A. (2006). Wa(i)ving solidarity: Feminist activists confronting backlash. Canadian Woman Studies, 25(3/4), 61–71. https://cws.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/cws/article/view/5886
deGroot, J. (2006). On being a feminist farmer. Canadian Woman Studies, 25(3/4), 191–192. https://cws.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/cws/article/view/5910
Israel, P., & Odette, F. (1993). The disabled women’s movement 1983 to 1993. Canadian Woman Studies, 13(4), 5–8. https://cws.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/cws/article/view/10268
Clark-Parsons, R. (2021). “I SEE YOU, I BELIEVE YOU, I STAND WITH YOU”: #MeToo and the performance of networked feminist visibility. Feminist Media Studies, 21(3), 362–380. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2019.1628797

Unit 2

Unit 3

Stirbys, C. D. (2008). Gender-based analysis and differing worldviews. Canadian Woman Studies, 26(3/4), 138–145. https://cws.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/cws/article/view/22123
Chew, D. (2009). Feminism and multiculturalism in Quebec: An/Other perspective. Canadian Woman Studies, 27(2/3), 84–92. https://cws.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/cws/article/view/24226

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Nadeau, M.-J. (2009). Troubling herstory: Unsettling white multiculturalism in Canadian feminism. Canadian Woman Studies, 27(2/3), 6–13. https://cws.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/cws/article/view/24214

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McIntosh, P. (n.d.). White privilege: Unpacking the invisible knapsack. National SEED Project (Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity). Retrieved April 27, 2022, from https://nationalseedproject.org/Key-SEED-Texts/white-privilege-unpacking-the-invisible-knapsack (Reprinted from "White privilege: Unpacking the invisible knapsack," 1989, Peace and Freedom Magazine, July/August, 10–12.)

Unit 4

Watson, K. (2018–2019). Missing and murdered Indigenous women: The role of grassroots organizations and social media in education. Canadian Woman Studies, 33(1/2), 204–210. https://cws.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/cws/article/view/37772
Desai, S., & Haffajee, Z. (2011). Breaking the silence: Reclaiming Qur’anic interpretations as a tool for empowerment and liberatory praxis for dealing with domestic violence in Canadian Muslim communities. Canadian Woman Studies, 29(1/2), 127–157. https://cws.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/cws/article/view/35087
White, C., & Goldberg, J. (2006). Expanding our understanding of gendered violence: Violence against trans people and their loved ones. Canadian Woman Studies, 25(1/2), 124–127. https://cws.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/cws/article/view/5968
Maxwell, C. (2010). Moving beyond rape as a “weapon of war”: An exploration of militarized masculinity and its consequences. Canadian Woman Studies, 28(1), 108–120. https://cws.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/cws/article/view/30786
Stermac, L., Cripps, J., & Badali, V. (2017–2018). Women’s experiences of stalking on campus: Behaviour changes and access to university resources. Canadian Woman Studies, 32(1/2), 67–76. https://cws.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/cws/article/view/37696

Unit 5

Orr, S. K., Dachner, N., Frank, L., & Tarasuk, V. (2018). Relation between household food insecurity and breastfeeding in Canada. Canadian Medical Association Journal, 190(11), E312–E319. https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.170880
Anderson, K. (2008). Notokwe opikiheet—“old lady raised”: Aboriginal women’s reflections on ethics and methodologies in health research. Canadian Woman Studies, 26(3/4), 6–12. https://cws.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/cws/article/view/22106
Tait, C. L. (2008). Simmering outrage during an “epidemic” of fetal alcohol syndrome. Canadian Woman Studies, 26(3/4), 69–76. https://cws.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/cws/article/view/22115
Baiden, D., & Evans, M (2021). Black African newcomer women’s perception of postpartum mental health services in Canada. Canadian Journal of Nursing Research, 53(3), 202–210. https://doi.org/10.1177/0844562120934273
Mahajan, S., Meyer, S. B., & Neiterman, E. (2022). Identifying the impact of social networks on mental and emotional health seeking behaviours amongst women who are refugees from Syria living in Canada. Global Public Health, 17(5), 700–716. https://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2021.1872679

Unit 6

Kmec, J. A. (2013). Why academic STEM mothers feel they have to work harder than others on the job. International Journal of Gender, Science and Technology, 5(2), 80–101. http://genderandset.open.ac.uk/index.php/genderandset/article/view/277
Grey, J. (2018–2019). What could the basic income guarantee do for women’s rights? Canadian Woman Studies, 33(1/2), 79–84. https://cws.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/cws/article/view/37759

Unit 7

Garrido, R., & Zaptsi, A. (2021). Archetypes, Me Too, Time’s Up and the representation of diverse women on TV. Communicar, 29(68), 21–32. https://doi.org/10.3916/C68-2021-02
Glennie, C. (2018). “We don’t kiss like that”: Inuit women respond to music video representations. AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, 14(2), 104–112. https://doi.org/10.1177/1177180118765474
Jiwani, Y. (2021). Gendered Islamophobia in the case of the returning ISIS women: A Canadian narrative. Islamophobia Studies Journal, 6(1), 52–77. https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A657617391/AONE?u=atha49011&sid=bookmark-AONE&xid=c1783513
Horeck, T. (2015). #ReneeZellweger’s face. Celebrity Studies, 6(2), 261–264. https://doi.org/10.1080/19392397.2015.1029761
Jackson, S. J., Bailey, M., & Welles, B. F. (2018). #GirlsLikeUs: Trans advocacy and community building online. New Media & Society, 20(5), 1868–1888. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444817709276

Unit 8

Guadalupe Morfin Otero, M. (2009). Violence against the women of Juárez. Canadian Woman Studies, 27(1), 45–49. https://cws.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/cws/article/view/23140
Jain, S. (2020, July). The rising fourth wave: Feminist activism and digital platforms in India. ORF Issue Brief No. 384. https://www.orfonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/ORF_IssueBrief_384_OnlineFeminism.pdf
Porter, G., Hampshire, K., Abane, A., Munthali, A., Robson, E., De Lannoy, A., Tanle, A., & Owusu, S. (2020). Mobile phones, gender, and female empowerment in sub-Saharan Africa: Studies with African youth. Information Technology for Development, 26(1), 180–193. https://doi.org/10.1080/02681102.2019.1622500