An interdisciplinary examination of the body, exploring how social relations and space are implicated in the constitution and experience of gendered bodies and identities, with an emphasis on feminist analyses of body-societal relations. Recommended pre-requisites: either all of GRSJ 101, GRSJ 102 or third-year standing.
Topics will vary from year to year. Consult the departmental website or contact the GRSJ undergraduate program for details. Recommended pre-requisites: all of GRSJ 101, GRSJ 102. Restricted to third-year standing or above
How feminist scholarship has shaped and reinterpreted accounts of the subject, drawing on such traditions as structuralism, poststructuralism, psychoanalysis, postcolonialism, postmodernism, and Queer Theory. Recommended pre-requisites: All of GRSJ 101, GRSJ 102. Restricted to GRSJ Majors and Minors in third-year standing or above.
Feminist scholarship emphasizing languages and processes of representation and the construction of difference in cultural discourses and institutions. Recommended pre-requisites: all of GRSJ 101, GRSJ 102. Restricted to GRSJ Majors and Minors in third-year standing or above.
Investigation of historical and contemporary scholarship on the diversity of families, focusing on differences of gender, sexuality, race/ethnicity, and social class within and across national borders. Recommended pre-requisites: all of GRSJ 101, GRSJ 102. Restricted to GRSJ Majors and Minors in third-year standing or above.
Data collection techniques, the politics of interpretation, and the formulation of a research proposal using a feminist, anti-racist framework. Recommended pre-requisites: all of GRSJ 101, GRSJ 102. Restricted to GRSJ Majors and Minors in third-year standing or above.
Feminist pedagogies and feminist debates about pedagogy in formal, nonformal, and informal educational settings. Recommended pre-requisites: either all of GRSJ 101, GRSJ 102 or third-year standing.
The intellectual and political interventions of queer of colour theorizing in the gender and sexual politics of racial and imperial projects, including its engagements with women of colour feminisms, settler colonial and indigenous studies, and immigration and diaspora studies.
Critical theories of racial and cultural difference. Initial formulations of theses against scientific racism and their later transformation by historical, social, and global-historical accounts of racial subjugation.