Women’s Studies

Description

The Institute of Feminist and Gender Studies offers students exciting bilingual interdisciplinary programs that explore questions related to women, gender, power, and diversity. Our teaching and research deal with important issues such as globalization, transnationalism, sexualities, gender identities, disability, colonialism, indigeneity, labour, reproduction, and racism that lie at the heart of national and international debates about socio-political equality. Course offerings are a blend of theoretical and practical knowledge that contributes to intellectual development, analytical competence, and collective efforts for social justice and transformation.

General admission requirements

Program highlights

• Students benefit from critical approaches to knowledge that can better prepare them for the job market.
• Students can conduct research at the Canadian Women’s Movement Archives, attend the Annual Shirley Greenberg Lecture, participate in the Feminist Café series, and volunteer at the Women’s Resource Centre on campus.
• Students work on real-world micro- and macro-level issues that are both local and global in nature.

Testimonials

“There are a lot of stereotypes around feminism such as the misinformed assumptions that it is geared at lesbians and man haters. This is unfortunate because, in fact, this program is inclusive, and attracts all kinds of students and is anything but a female-driven, man-hating environment. On the contrary, we don’t just study feminism, we also study, among other things, masculinity. There are amazing courses to discover like Gender, sexuality and pop culture. Personally, the program has allowed me to delve deeper into a variety of topics that are of interest to me, from female genital mutilation, to women’s economic equality, to legal reform, capitalism and even Wall Street. The program is customizable and exciting, and offers so many possibilities. It taught me how to argue and make a point in a reasoned and well researched way. In my three years here, I have yet to come across a poor professor, they are all so incredible!”

Alexandra Nytschyk-DiBartolomeo , student

“Women’s studies is relevant to everyone: we analyse and challenge the exclusions and marginalization often present in more «traditional» scholarship. At the Institute of Feminist and Gender Studies, we recognize that gender discrimination doesn’t happen in a vacuum: some of the most pressing issues being researched by feminist scholars involve racism, ableism and classism as well as gay, lesbian, queer and transgender rights.”

Corrie Scott, professor

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